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This is the present I gave Florence for mother’s day. It’s a very cool (imho) hand bag from the Dutch designers Vlieger & Vandam, and is part of their Guardian Angel collection. These are bags made from leather and felt and have either a knife or a pistol shown as an outline on the felt side of the bag. I think I saw them first here, although it could’ve been on boingboing as well.
Another picture of the bag. (I should mention that this post should be dated beginning of May, when I actually gave Florence the bag, but I seem unable to change the date …)

… is the title of the book that Florence has written with three of her colleagues, and which has finally been published by the venerable Presses Universitaires de France (puf). The book is available at Amazon.fr and other bookshops, however it’s quite confidential. It is particularly remarkable that the publisher managed to misspell the name of the “principal” author, ie Denis instead of Didier Souiller in their own catalogue (on page 24). Anyway, I am very proud of Florence. As would a certain neighbour of ours say: soon she’ll be on telly!

Florence war heute, am Montag nach dem Referendum, im Rathaus, in einer anderen Angelegenheit, und hat zufälligerweise die hiesigen Zahlen gesehen, die ich natürlich niemandem vorenthalten möchte:

In Médan gibt es 888 Wahlberechtigte, von den 688 ihre Stimme abgegeben haben, das sind also überdurchschnittliche 77,48%. Oui haben 450 gesagt (65,98%), und Non nur 232 (34,02%).

Ach so, da es ja Gerüchte gab, dass nach einem Non Chaos ausbrechen würde, und es Zerwürfnisse geben würde, möchte ich dem nur entgegenhalten, dass die Familie Fix immer noch beieinander ist. Keine Scheidung in Sicht

Photos vom Abschlussfest der Mittwochsschule der Deutschen Schule Paris.

Boiling a Frog by Christopher Brookmyre (finally managed to finish this second Harry Potter volume).