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01/04/2008, 21:39 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 2,007 Re: déjeuner du matin? A 3 course breakfast would be something, Pads! Maybe the man was blind so couldn't look at her?   Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

01/04/2008, 21:50 Pads Joined on 24/05/2006 Cornwall/ Montage Noir Posts 3,427 Re: déjeuner du matin? Ah you dont live in this house then a tipical breakfast here porridge/cereal, plate of fruit , toast and coffee. They could of just had bad hang overs, he was grumpy and she was emotional. Or maybe he wasnt a morning person and she was pre-menstral    Dirty Tom =^..^= Where ever I lay my paw thats my home    Report

01/04/2008, 23:03 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 2,007 Re: déjeuner du matin?  Pads wrote: she was pre-menstral    Or menopausal...  And why did he need a hat?  Was he a gendarme?  We all know that gendarmes never smile and maybe he had a crime to solve and was busy thinking about that? Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

01/04/2008, 23:14 Jacqui Too Joined on 23/08/2004 Shropshire / Dordogne 24 Posts 711 Re: déjeuner du matin? I have two theories: 1. She's the mistress and he's going back to his wife  2. He's a soldier going off to war and he doesn't want to see her crying Jackie    Report

01/04/2008, 23:15 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,375 Re: déjeuner du matin? It must have been Inspecteur Maigret.    animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.orange.fr/ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

01/04/2008, 23:28 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 2,007 Re: déjeuner du matin? Or a clown going off to the circus?  They only smile to the crowds (or so they say).   Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

02/04/2008, 1:41 TWINKLE Joined on 11/03/2006 Tarn 81 Posts 3,930 Re: déjeuner du matin? Maybe she's his mother! Or maybe he's her father    Report

02/04/2008, 12:33 cowoman Joined on 08/04/2007 Posts 314 Re: déjeuner du matin? Or maybe they are all just people for your imagination to make what you will of them in the poem.Its working.    Report

02/04/2008, 12:40 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 2,007 Re: déjeuner du matin?  Pads wrote: I love it when you get given half a story and its left to everyone to make up whats going on. We use to play a party game based on this it was so interesting to see how people picked up on different parts of the story. Cowoman - we're playing Pads' game. Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

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