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Spring Has Sprung
‘Thank goodness spring is here,’ I thought, as I looked out onto the garden one morning in early March, watching my cat weave his way through the daffodils. Spring brings the promise of new life. The dispelling of cold, hard winter, and the welcome a
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Mel BONIS (1858-1937)
Composed and published in 1913, French composer Mel Bonis’s Album pour les tout-petits Op 103 contains 20 relatively easy pieces which feature some charmingly descriptive titles: There’s La puce (The flea), Douce amie (Sweet friend), La toupee (Spinn
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Pedagogues, Pedants And Pedals
When I was starting French at school, one of the teachers told us to think of the difference between ‘tu’ and ‘vous’ as the same between ‘thou’ and ‘you’ in English. I still remember the confusion this caused. ‘Thou’ in English is archaic, rare and f

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