My Life as a Crab by Amy After 30 years of living in the South of France, I would like to be able to say that I understand Mediterranean summers, but apparently, I haven’t learnt a thing! In 2 BC (that’s two years before covid – or 2019 for those more traditional among you), the […]
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How your favourite team of trainers stays so happy
How I manage not to throw an axe by Amy It is not uncommon for people to ask me where I find my bounce … and it’s true that I tend to go through life as though hopping from trampoline to trampoline. First of all, life is always easier when you are blessed with a […]
Cast ne’er a clout ‘til the pandemic be out
The Search for the Post-Pandemic Fashion Trend by Amy After all major crises, fashion has changed. After the constraints of the first world war, women’s fashion became more casual, in the 1930s and 40s, fashion had an escapist theme and maps were even printed onto clothes in case of emergency! In the 1960s, when the […]
ELC meets TED
As our avid readers will surely know, ELC has a particular passion for TED. For those of you who do not yet know the TED conferences, they bring together people with fascinating stories, innovative ideas, and positive messages for the world. Their motto is “Ideas Worth Spreading…” and their initials stand for Technology Entertainment and […]
Beware the Ides of March – Upper-inters
2020-21 The Journal of a Pandemic year I have just had an incredible thought. It may have been intentional. It may have been a co-incidence, but when I think back to my A-levels studies in German, French and English literature, no less than five of my compulsory novels were about people living in lockdown. And […]
Beware the Ides of March – Advanced learners
‘Beware the Ides of March,’ the soothsayer warns Julius Caesar. Perhaps we should too. One year ago, the Ides of March, the ancient Roman name for 15th March, marked the beginning of lockdown in France. With a grimdetermination, we locked ourselves down, put on our masks, sanitised our hands and stopped seeing friends and all […]
Beware the Ides of March – Beginners
A Year in the M***e I love an excuse to celebrate : Birthdays, anniversaries, festivals, the list goes on, but this month we’re “celebrating” a year of living with Covid. When I look at the photos on my phone or my Facebook feed at the beginning of last year, I see images of my family and […]
Happy New Year, but before you forget 2020 …!
As per the usual tradition, ELC will be presenting its very annoying Quiz of the Year to all its lucky readers. How much do you remember of what happened during the pandemic? What were the main geopolitical hot spots of the year, what happened in the sports industry (not a lot, admittedly), and just what […]
ELC goes green
Amy barks up the wrong tree I have always loved plants. When I was an infant child, my mother used to stimulate me by asking me to point to the different species growing around the house whilst I sat in my pushchair. “Where’s the begonia?” she would say, and I would smile sweetly, while thinking […]
ELC reads some books
Summer is a time I always put aside to catch up on the numerous books that I have wanted to read during the year. I put my subscriptions to newspapers on standby and instead turn to the joys of “real reading”. On a trip to Book-In-Bar in Aix in July, I was drawn to the […]