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Sacre Bleu!

These are the opening two verses of "Cill Aodáin";(Gaeilge)

Anois teacht an earraigh
beidh an lá ag dul chun síneadh,
Is tar éis na féil Bríde
ardóidh mé mo sheol.
Ó chuir mé i mo cheann é

ní chónóidh mé choíche
Go seasfaidh mé síos
i lár Chontae Mhaigh Eo.
I gClár Chlainne Mhuiris

A bheas mé an chéad oíche,
Is i mballa taobh thíos de
A thosaigh mé ag ól.
Go Coillte Mách rachaidh

Go ndéanfadh cuairt mhíosa ann
I bhfogas dhá mhíle
Do Bhéal an Átha Mhóir
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English translation

Now coming of the Spring
the day will be lengthening,
and after St. Bridget's Day
I shall raise my sail.
Since I put it into my head

I shall never stay put
until I shall stand down
in the center of County Mayo.
In Claremorris' family

I will be the first night,
and in the wall on the side below it
I will begin to drink.
to Kiltimagh (Magh's Woods) I shall go
until I shall make a month's visit there
two miles close
to Aghamore. :-P

We always look for Norbert Dentressangle lorries when we're on the way down to the Channel ports, and we always say "We'll get there before you, Norbert" as we pass them.

Now they have a depot near to us in Kings Lynn - they are everywhere :-D :-D

We were driving to a job in Croydon and saw a Norbert Dentressangle(?) lorry outside of one of those transport cafes along the A23.

I had not really used any French since school but said to OH "Avez vous un saucisson pour mon petit dejeuner mon bon homme?"

Thereafter, every time we saw an ND lorry one of us would try to think up a another item for Norbert's breakfast.

On Sunday he goes to the 'whatever a newsagent is in French' sur son bicyclette pour le Monde et un packet of Camels.

Yes,

It is not a direct translation. Maybe that is what the French term is? But using 'noir' instead of 'poches' cuts out a syllable so it would not fit the tune that we all know.

It was chalked up on the blackboard by the French teacher and we 1st formers had to sing it. Thus committed forever to memory.

Also thus committed was the school song. In Latin - which I do not know. Spelling is probably well off, but herewith the first few lines:-

Matrem nostrum(nostram?) nunc cantamus
Quad (quaie?) virtutes nos docet
Semper fide maneamus
Et vitamus ....(something, something)

Anyone know Latin? I think the tune it was sung to was from Carmen.

two lovely black eyes?

And a song from my school days.

deux beau yeux poches
deux beau yeux poches
pour avoir dit a Paul q'il est gourmande
deux beau yeux poches

siga siga (pronounced like cigar but without the r so ciga)

we say this as it's Greek for slowly slowly as manjana is far too fast for here. :-D

Eventually I gathered that what real phrase was that my father would often use:-

"San fairy Ann"

shurrup you lot - my uncle's table was a boy - so there :-D

I took lots of things at school and was done for theft! :-D :-D :-D

You are all speaking "double Dutch" to me.

I took "German" at school :-)

Dans la rue, il ya un gros camembert
Dans la rue, il ya un gros camembert de ma tante
Bridel!!


an advertising ditty I remember from a holiday in France in 1970, from the radio!

I thought it was .....la plume de ma tante est sur le bureau de mon oncle.....or is my memory failing me!??
Funny the things that stick in your mind......Freres Jacques anyone....?..

Ferme la bouche was said quite a bit in our house :-|

Ann, it's 'LA' table.......hands on head now and repeat 10 times. :-)lol.

Our french teacher used two english words a lot in our lessons.......'numbskull' and 'dunderhead', so I don't think we were very good.

I think the translation is 'Same old, same old' :-D

Bless you !

My poor French teacher, she had terrible trouble with some of the class, and made us all sit with our hands on our heads. I wish I'd kept it up, learning French that is, not having my hands on my head....although.... ;-)

tiramisu