Since tomorrow is Good Friday('Vendredi Saint' in France)............ Have a nice time...............! Passez des bonnes moments!

I found this article on my Google Drive today - it goes back to 2006 or so, when I was due to go into hospital for a heart bypass operation. The procedure of 'stents' to widen the arteries had been done 3 or 4 times with limited success, and so a bypass was deemed necessary. Frankly I wasn't particularly bothered - yes, I was feeling more and more weaker, but I was also more and more older! Since the hospital at /nimes could not do these operations at the time, I had to go to Montpellier, by paid taxi of course. But I thought I owed it to myself and the Health Insurance to try my own test! A bit like this....... Well, I'm afraid I may have some bad news for some of you! Yesterday, I put my pen-ultimate test into operation, and passed! You see, whilst not mocking or disbelieving Doctors, Surgeons,Politicians, I have always worked on the basis of testing myself to standards laid down by myself! Having passed the last 15 or so years, in trying to find ...

Well - basically, since I live in France , it means: “ Pâques ”....... http://www.frenchmoments.eu/easter-traditions-in-france-paques-en-france/   You can find lots of information here. A lot of people, non- French speaking , don't know this, although they do know the word ' Pascale ', as a name or as in 'lamb pascale'  it's another word in French that has an accent, which means that the original has been 'adapted', in this case the accent over the 'a' represents - originally- an 's' (which it often does in latin based languages). The French are - like the Spanish , Italians  and others, inclined to only celebrate the ' festival days ' (ie when they don't work) in this case Monday! Good Friday doesn't really exist, and even the Easter Sunday is only important for the religious people, even the Supermarkets are open to buy forgotten things like this!  ...... So far as other traditions are concerned, there are m...