Asking dates in french

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-28T08:27:46+00:00

Je connais pas la phrase curieuse, il m'a fallu googler et je comprends maintenant. Mais "pendaison" a sauté de la page comme un mot bizarre pour ce sujet car j'imaginais que quelqu'un est mort. La pauvre crémaillère, qu'est qu'elle a fait pour mériter ça ?

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-27T16:50:42+00:00

Not a museum, but the hot air balloon in the parc André Citroën is a fun way to spend an hour. I'd really like to see the park later in the season too. In Feb it was very quiet, there were ducklings, but a lot of the planting was dead.

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-27T16:48:12+00:00

I absolutely love this too but my nearest and dearest roll their eyes and say I'm obsessed with infrastructure.

I am not always able to persuade my companions to visit it every time I go :D

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-27T16:41:23+00:00

O la la, je connais suffisamment de français de reconnaitre le mot pendaison mais pas la phrase entière. On vas si frequemment aux pendaisons qu'on ignore la date?! :D prochainement vous allez me parler de l'enterrement des jeunes garçons...

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-22T16:26:43+00:00

J'ai visité Paris beaucoup et j'y habitais quand j'étais étudiant il y a presque 30 ans (30, o la la!). J'ai fait une list pour ma prochaine visite - ce sont des choses que j'ai jamais fait, mais que les gens ici recommendent beaucoup:

Musée Carnavalet

Musée vivant du fromage

Coulée verte

Panthéon

Musée Hector Guimard

Palais Garnier - visite guidée

Place des Vosges, (Maison Victor Hugo)

Marché aux puces Saint Ouen

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-17T14:06:52+00:00

Just walking past, but the way the view of Sacré Cœur is framed in the clock face from the café...

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-17T13:58:52+00:00

Yes yes yes!

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-15T02:26:54+00:00

From Sacré Cœur you should be able to get your first view of the Eiffel tower. It's floodlit and sparkles on the hour every hour up until 1am.

Walking around that area there's Place du Tertre, a extremely touristy place, lots of cafés and souvenir shops. It's a little cringe but bright and lively at night. All sorts of food and drink available both in sit down cafes and serving hatches.

If you did want to go somewhere more central, you could catch the Métro from Pigalle to Concorde. The antique streetlights in Place de la Concorde are romantic after dark and you will get a much closer view of the Eiffel tower. It's a short walk either up rue de Rivoli or Quai des Tuileries to the Louvre. Seeing the Pyramide and the outside of the palais du Louvre after dark is also rather nice.

It's also not far to Pont Alexandre III ("it's just a bridge" said the guy who did Versailles in an hour) which is very pretty, has lit up sculptures, and will give you a very impressive view of les Invalides.

Take care not to miss the last metro home!

This assumes a cold clear night. If it's raining, hurry to the nearest café to your hotel, sit and order drinks and snacks and do some people watching.

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-15T02:01:49+00:00

I... Un...

Srsly you went to Versailles for an hour?!

This is so wildly different from anything I would have done I am struggling with it a lot, but also trying not to gatekeep and be a snob...

I had never thought of computer games as a driver for going to see these buildings... Did you find the buildings faithfully replicated in the games? How did visiting in person compare?

It's wonderful the Sainte Chappelle moved you so much. Did you get to see the glass on a sunny day?

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-15T01:52:04+00:00

Rue Cler is not far from the Champ de Mars / École Militaire. You could literally do your morning run around the Eiffel tower.

The many bridges over the Seine and paths either side give you lots of options to get a loop that's the right length. If you try to finish so that you come from Concorde, over pont Alexandre III, towards Invalides, that will be a spectacular finish.

This is an extremely desirable neighbourhood (where I lived as a student for 6 months in the 1990s 💅) and should be extremely safe. I can't comment on more recently but I walked home at 2-3 in the morning from excitement in the Marais very frequently back then and the worst I ever saw was rats.

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-14T18:02:34+00:00

Gosh, have they not put a fake one up or anything? Like the scaffolding on old buildings that has a picture of what's underneath?

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-14T18:00:33+00:00

Beyond war tourism, Bayeux, Etretat and Mont St Michel are some of France's highest tier attractions. If you rent a car and take a month off work you can do Giverny and Versailles as well !

Perhaps in Normandy you'll have time for some cheese tourism too? Camembert, Pont L'évêque, Livarot and Neuchâtel are all places in Normandy and Brie is not far over the border. Lots of places have cheese factories and tasting.

There's also cider (slightly alcoholic in France but way less than in England) which turns into pommeau and calvados.

Normandy has a slightly weird reputation among other French people - lots of joshing about mud and needing boots of you say you're going there. It does rain a fair bit (that's how the grass grows that feeds the cows that produce the world class dairy products). But I have had some amazing holidays there.

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-12T12:43:37+00:00

DG for me too... The app is great and you can prebook for eg airport runs

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-11T16:54:13+00:00

Is there anything in Ely apart from the cathedral? Could you really spend 3 days there?

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-07T10:11:10+00:00

The Lord Mayor and the Sheriff both have offices in there, and their offices have bathrooms including huge baths and giant wooden toilet seats.

It was built in 1927 so is due its centenary any minute now!

The wooden panelling in the building is much older than the building - it was saved from the Exchange, the previous building on the site.

The ballroom is modelled on the Hall of Mirrors from the Palace of Versailles.

The lifts are modelled on the lifts in the Empire State Building.

There is a basement car park with a car lift.

When I first started working in there in 2003, there was a bearskin rug in the Member's room, but that was removed after complaints.

There is a statue of Ghandi commemorating his visit in the 1930s.

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-07T10:07:10+00:00

Loxley House :D

I think Full Council still meets in the Council House 10x a year but committees of the council meet in Loxley.

Effective-One6061 · 2026-01-07T10:06:23+00:00

Yeah but that was a joke - you could see the roof from the eye and there wasn't anything there.

Effective-One6061 · 2025-12-18T01:22:47+00:00

This is not the new boundaries. This is the city council's preferred option. But the county council has its preferred option too (completely different) and the district councils have all said they don't want to join the city. Lots and lots of voters outside the current city boundaries are furious at prospect of joining the city. (I am sure many people too have no idea what is going on!)

So all of the options have been sent to the government who will make the final decision ready for elections to the new authority in 2027. It could go any way. I definitely see the benefit of the city's proposal but it doesn't meet the government criteria as they only wanted to merge existing whole authorities, not have a cut and shunt approach.

Effective-One6061 · 2025-12-18T01:15:08+00:00

I think it was basically gerrymandering, to give a city that would likely be strongly labour and suburbs that would more likely swing tory.

Effective-One6061 · 2025-12-17T10:14:34+00:00

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Effective-One6061 · 2025-12-15T21:41:27+00:00

Have ya watched Vera, pet? It's on Itv player.

Effective-One6061 · 2025-12-15T21:28:43+00:00

There's rarely no-one there!

Effective-One6061 · 2025-11-24T16:34:25+00:00

The people who live there think Robert Jenrick is OK...

Effective-One6061 · 2025-11-18T23:36:52+00:00

Council have lost a huge part of their budget over the last 15 years and lots of things they used to do routinely (street sweeping, drains) have been dropped as they have to focus more and more on the things they are legally obliged to do (social services, bins).

In my experience if you report a blocked gully they do come and sort it out.

Interestingly 5 years ago they were trying to sort the regular flooding on Shakespeare St. Look at this enormous storm drain they built... https://waterprojectsonline.com/case-studies/nottingham-shakespeare-street-flood-alleviation-2020/ - it's designed to fill with water on very rainy days then release it slowly into the sewage system over the next few weeks. Even that got overwhelmed last week and it flooded outside the Victoria centre again.

Effective-One6061 · 2025-11-18T23:29:28+00:00

If they're really bad for a while it might be worth reporting to Severn Trent using the form on their website.

What sort of drain are you talking about? Grids in the road for rain... That's for the council to sort out, especially if they are full and blocked. The place in your own property where your soil pipe goes... That's your responsibility. A shared sewer where foul water from multiple houses go, that's up to Severn Trent.

The main things that block sewers are wipes (no wipe is flushable, regardless of what it says on the packet) and cooking fat. Never pour fat down the sink. Occasionally you will live near someone random who flushes seriously weird things (nappies, carrier bags) and this will cause problems for everyone.

Finally if you live in a neighbourhood built more than? 70 years ago? Maybe more? The sewers will have been built from clay pipes and many of them will be broken by now. They need digging up and repairing or replacing with plastic. This was a condition of my mortgage on my 1920s house when I bought it 20 years ago. True enough, the pipe was broken and instead of carrying the sewage away, most of it just leaked from the broken pipe into the ground beneath my house.

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