Emma Pearson

A platter of oysters, hand at top of shot squeezing lemon

Two pigs lying together in the straw

An absolute unit of a sheep with a curly fringe

A hippy horse from the Camargue with a long white mane and forelock

No cows, but still a great day out at the Paris Salon de l'Agriculture - oysters, cheese, sausage, wine from every region of France, beautiful pigs and an absolute unit of a sheep! 5 stars

Poster reads, in French, And if the wolf didn't have fruit and vegetables to eat? With a call to support farmers

From Christmas adverts to political activism - the Intermarché wolf is busy!

Seconded, this podcast is great!

YouTube video by Le Café du Sport Business Antoine Dupont, Djibril Cissé... Adidas dévoile le nouveau maillot du XV de France pour le Crunch 🏉

Beautiful start to the fun rivalry of Le Crunch 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏈
(The jug of beans particularly tickled me!)

It's that time of year - French politicians holding animals!
This year includes an unhappy lamb, the party leader apparently scared of a rabbit and a very beautiful chunky piglet 👇

Street art in a drawing style of a wolf family, with roses, under an umbrella

Happy Friday from the sexy wolf that just appeared round the corner from my office 🍻

If you, like me, are lamenting the lack of penis acid dramas, curling F-bomb controversies and skiing wolf dogs since the Olympics ended, here's how to watch the Winter Paralympics, which starts next week 🥳

🚄✈️Why is it still so hard to choose train over plane?

On long-distance routes, choosing the train can feel borderline heroic. It’s often more expensive, takes longer, and you often miss connections.

We asked @jon@gruene.social what needs to change to make rail the obvious choice.

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That's one unhappy looking lamb . . .

Blossom against a blue sky in Paris

Dark pink blossom against a twilight sky

I thought spring had forgotten us this year, but it seems that the good times are coming

Fun! But in no way the maddest headline about the French from UK media

Great piece! Really captures the joy of the Salon. I'm going this weekend and will definitely fight anyone who tries to get between me and the nougat . . .

Come for the nougat fights, if not the cows Even in a boring year, the Salon de l’agriculture is anything but boring.

This week, I have written about the massive punch-up at a nougat stand at the Salon de l'agriculture. If you've ever wanted to see a fight involving a nougat knife, watch the video.

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Talking France - a podcast from The Local Talking France is our podcast that covers all aspects of life in France

Like les bronzés, the Talking France podcast has gone skiing. We'll be back next week, in the meantime you can catch up on the back catalogue here

I've always been baffled by how the concept of the 15-minute city became a deranged conspiracy theory, so this was a fascinating listen

Street scene in Paris suburbs with a cheese shop and, in the distance, a florist and boulangerie

Irises in a vase

Good evening from a 15-minute city, I bought flowers and bread on the walk home and plan to walk to the cinema later. Stalinist!

Hahah, what the hell?!

Yes, consulates are usually much quicker than préfectures. I think you're wise to assume years rather than months. Good luck!

Photo of canal basin in Paris 19eme with a clear blue sky

THE SUN! Haven't seen it jn decades (feels like) 😍😎

Final paragraph of a French memo signed by Bruno Retailleau, the signature is simply three lines

Also, not the point, but ex Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau's signature on the memo that enacted these devastating changes is ridiculous, it looks like a drawing of a thumb . . .

'It's not just a piece of paper, I want to belong in France' - rejected citizenship applicants speak out France's new tougher rules on French citizenship have seen an increasing number of people rejected on economic grounds - including young people who have spent almost their entire life in France. We sp...

It's often purely seen in terms of passports or travel, but citizenship can be an intensely emotional thing, linked to the sense of self. I spoke to some of the young people who have spent almost their entire life in France and who are now being rejected for citizenship on economic grounds

Yes, true. A couple of years ago I saw a girl get on the Metro and light up a cigarette, she looked astonished when a fellow passenger told her to put it out
(Smoking has never been allowed on the Paris Metro and was banned on all public transport in 2006)

Really interesting listen on the upcoming 🇫🇷 elections, and also why the Macronist project failed

So. new rules on British dual nationals come in tomorrow. I have had hundreds of emails from Brits overseas impacted. Including a few tonight saying a Canadian airline will not accept expired passport. Do email lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com if you know D.N. stopped from boarding flight from 2moro

There's an image of the French fonctionnaire as a grim-faced automaton seeking any reason to refuse your request. While I'm sure they do exist, I feel I should say that everyone I have ever dealt with in person at Seine-Saint-Denis préfecture has been very friendly and helpful

EU's EES biometric passport checks catch 4,000 over-stayers in first 4 months One of the stated aims of the EU's new EES system of biometric passport checks is to catch people who 'over-stay' the 90-day limit, and 4,000 of those have been caught in the first months of its imple...

I do still occasionally stumble across the odd Brit (non-resident) who assumes that the 90-day rule somehow doesn't apply to them and . . .

Seems somehow strangely French to invent a mocking phrase for someone who 'only' came 4th in the Olympics/race/competition . . . 🏅

Activists from the anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble on February 19.

YouTube video by France Rugby La Marseillaise s'écoute aussi avec les yeux grâce à Société Générale

I didn't think La Marseillaise could get any better . . . Turns out it can, if you get 🇫🇷 rugby team to sign it! Lovely to see this on the TV coverage of the anthems

I think this is still the case for languages that retain a formal and informal 'you'. In French 'tu' is informal, but using it for someone you should address as 'vous' can be insulting. Its roughly equivalent to calling an adult man 'boy' - belittling
(Also this is a fascinating thread 👇)