Next saturday, in Kennington
Plus de détails dans cet article:
Regardez la vidéo d’entraînement:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?t=2&v=150601372949552
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This London community is doing a 12-hour doorstep-athon for charity
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Connaissez-vous les mots anglais à la mode?
Depuis le début de la pandémie et du confinement de nouveaux termes sont apparus dans la langue anglaise. Les voici :
Are you fully conversant with the new terminology?
*Coronacoaster* The ups and downs of your mood during the pandemic. You’re loving lockdown one minute but suddenly weepy with anxiety the next. It truly is “an emotional coronacoaster”.
*Quarantinis* Experimental cocktails mixed from whatever random ingredients you have left in the house. The boozy equivalent of a store cupboard supper. Southern Comfort and Ribena quarantini with a glacé cherry garnish, anyone? These are sipped at “locktail hour”, ie. wine o’clock during lockdown, which seems to be creeping earlier with each passing week.
*Le Creuset wrist* It’s the new “avocado hand” – an aching arm after taking one’s best saucepan outside to bang during the weekly ‘Clap For Carers.’ It might be heavy but you’re keen to impress the neighbours with your high-quality kitchenware.
*Coronials* As opposed to millennials, this refers to the future generation of babies conceived or born during coronavirus quarantine. They might also become known as “Generation C” or, more spookily, “Children of the Quarn”.
*Furlough Merlot* Wine consumed in an attempt to relieve the frustration of not working. Also known as “bored-eaux” or “cabernet tedium”.
*Coronadose* An overdose of bad news from consuming too much media during a time of crisis. Can result in a panicdemic.
*The elephant in the Zoom* The glaring issue during a videoconferencing call that nobody feels able to mention. E.g. one participant has dramatically put on weight, suddenly sprouted terrible facial hair or has a worryingly messy house visible in the background.
*Quentin Quarantino* An attention-seeker using their time in lockdown to make amateur films which they’re convinced are funnier and cleverer than they actually are.
*Covidiot* or *Wuhan-ker* One who ignores public health advice or behaves with reckless disregard for the safety of others can be said to display “covidiocy” or be “covidiotic”. Also called a “lockclown” or even a “Wuhan-ker”.
*Goutbreak* The sudden fear that you’ve consumed so much wine, cheese, home-made cake and Easter chocolate in lockdown that your ankles are swelling up like a medieval king’s.
*Antisocial distancing* Using health precautions as an excuse for snubbing neighbours and generally ignoring people you find irritating.
*Coughin’ dodger* Someone so alarmed by an innocuous splutter or throat-clear that they back away in terror.
*Mask-ara* Extra make-up applied to « make one’s eyes pop » before venturing out in public wearing a face mask.
*Covid-10* The 10lbs in weight that we’re all gaining from comfort-eating and comfort-drinking. Also known as “fattening the curve.
Jacqueline Allanic
How Norwich achieved lowest coronavirus death rates in England
Voici un article de The Independent qui tente d’expliquer pourquoi la ville de Norwich a été moins touchée par le coronavirus que d’autres villes d’Angleterre.
Jacqueline Allanic
a stunning portrait of London’s NHS
A photography book by Lewis Khan
Before the current situation, London-based artist and photographer Lewis Khan was granted unrestricted access to two hospitals in the capital over a four-year period. He was permitted to attend operations, observe patients and staff in pain, in joy, in despair. The result is a brilliant photobook, ‘Theatre’. All profits from sales of the book are going to the NHS.
You can preorder it here:
https://lostlightbooks.com/lost-light-recordings-books/lewis-khan-theatre
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Rewilding
In Norfolk, more than 1,000 acres of farmland are being given back to nature!
here is an article in the Eastern Daily Press:
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/rewilding-at-ken-hill-in-norfolk-1-6628753
Jacqueline Allanic
eye-catching trees you can spot on lockdown walks around London
as well as in Rouen or Norwich!
Si au cours de votre promenade quotidienne autorisée, vous remarquez un bel arbre, prenez-le en photo et partagez en commentaire de cet article.
NLG
Norwich 360
Faites un tour virtuel de la belle ville de Norwich
On vous le rappelle, comme on le voit sur ce panneau, Norwich est jumelée avec Rouen
N’oubliez pas de visiter un de nos endroits préférés, Elm hill et the teddy bear shop
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National Tea day April 21st
here is the website: https://www.nationalteaday.co.uk/
watch these videos
It is in Norwich Castle that you can see the largest (working) teapot in the world!
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C.S Lewis
You can also read about Robert Fortune, the tea spy:
or read his book :
Enjoy a nice cuppa and have a virtual tea party!
NLG and Jacqueline Allanic
Virtual garden visits
Nous sommes confinés mais pouvons nous échapper dans ces merveilleux jardins anglais le temps d’une heure ou d’une journée. Les propositions sont variées et vous pourrez faire votre choix avant de pouvoir les visiter dès que le moment sera venu. Vous pourrez alors profiter des splendides couleurs, harmonies et de vous enivrer de tous ces parfums.
Enjoy the tours.
And don’t miss one of my favourite gardens
Béatrice Hennessy
The 99-year-old war veteran raising money for the NHS
Le capitaine Tom Moore, qui a servi durant la seconde guerre mondiale, a l’intention de marcher 100 fois la longueur de son jardin avant ses 100 ans, le 30 avril, pour récolter de l’argent pour les soignants en Grande Bretagne. Il a déjà récolté aujourd’hui plus d’un million de livres sterling!
He spoke to BBC Breakfast about why he wanted to raise money for the NHS.
Un article de Speakeasy news sur Captain Tom Moore :
Jacqueline Allanic