Learning French is BLOODY HARD!!! | Our new life in the Charente, France

I'm proper confused. Proper, proper, properly confused. That's only if you're addressing one chicken. If you're addressing multiple chickens, you're talking to them in a formal way. It's all mashed together like a dog's dinner. It's because I eat on the floor, like a dog. Any of that, roll intro. From the southwest of France to Partoumen 16, the Chirotte. I'm proper confused. Proper, proper, properly confused is the correct English. Right. So, as you know, there's two ways of communication in French. There's the formal and the informal. To talk to somebody that you don't know or somebody that in work, say, if he's going into a shop, you would use the formal, which would be, as an example, have you, you have. Now, if I was to ask the same question to a friend, it'd be a to or to a, I think. However, there's a catch to that. Of course, there's a catch. So, in the mornings when I say bonjour les poules, so I'm wishing all the chickens a greeting, and then I say a to passer bon matin or a to passer bonjourner. So, have you had a good day or have you had a good morning? Now, that's only if you're addressing one chicken. If you're addressing multiple chickens, you talk to them in a formal way. They don't teach you this in school. They don't teach you in the books. Certainly don't teach it on Duolingo. Anyway, thanks for all the comments yesterday and all the suggestions on what to watch. Got loads on the list now. Thank you. So, in terms of today, stable. The chickens are moving. The chickens are moving now, so it's going to need to be cleaned. And we're going to move them into the shed. In preparation for the horse is cheval, cheveau. Oh, did I tell you? Early daughters, when we came here, asked for my horses to be cut. So, cheval is horse. Cheveau is horse plural. Hare is cheveau, the other way around. Whatever it is. I got it wrong. Anyway, another thing that we've got to do today is say hello to Unique. Now, I said hello to him yesterday, but when he walked across, he had a limp. And he really, really tried to come across and I don't really want to make him walk if he doesn't want to come over. But, yeah, bless him, he still came over. I think we'll just leave him be. Bonjour. Yeah, so last year, me and my brother, my brother mostly, he was the big chainsaw-y type thing. And we got rid of that. That was, that was probably about 20 foot high, that. I filmed it, obviously. And it was in a video called me and my brother tackle a big bush in France. So, I've got to do that today. Otherwise, it's just going to grow uncontrollably. So, but I don't know what next is. Whatever it is, let's do that. I've done quite a bit today. It's been a lovely day today. I should have gone on my bike. You know, at least it's working and I've got a matcha. Anyway, well, that's right, just went straight off the cuff with that. Good morning. So, some more, some more generosity came our way yesterday. So, the lady that we know from the stables, Carina, our friend, introduced us to a local farmer, Pascal. He's going to be our hay provider when we get the horse. Only charging us 20 euros for a big ring of hay, I think it is. But he came and had a look at our bottom field in terms of its security and what we need to do. And it needs to be fenced. So, we're putting fence posts across the bottom so the horse can only use the bottom part. But the whole perimeter is, it's all got rotten posts and stuff like that. That'll cost between one and two thousand euros. However, he's going to come next week with some posts and his tractor and he's going to do it for 120 euros. How amazing is that? So, he came around here last night, we had a wine, we had a chat, took him around the house, just a really, really lovely fella. Yeah, it's important to surround yourself by nice, kind people. Anyway, Unique's over there. I'll show you. Good morning. Bonjour. Yeah, good boy. I'll bring you a new friend you can talk over the fence to. I don't know whether you can see in the distance, but there's two bushes. Ah, there you go. One there and one there. They're going to need to come down because that white bit of, it's not rope, but for argument's sake, let's call it rope. That's part of the electric fence. That bit's not used. But if something touches it, it shorts it. It's like the wet grass and stuff like that. It will short it out, apparently, according to the farmer. So, yeah, that's going to need to go down before the fence goes in. I'm going to cut myself a celeriac mash. I've never done it before, so let's do that. I'm getting even closer, and boy, I'm coming for you. Baby, you're not even coming, I'm coming, I'm coming, ooh, baby. I'm coming for you. I'm coming for you. I'm coming for you. I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming, ooh, baby. You said, I think I'll call you. I just said, by that, I won't answer you. I laughed and said, today ain't coming. No, you won't be there. You'll see, you can tell. Just a note by me. I'll slip into it. Stay there. Been a good boy, never called you. Meet me at the club tonight. I think it was a quarter past, and there you were. You said, you know I need you. Help me take the world. I'm moving closer. I know I'm coming for you. I'm getting ready. I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming, ooh, baby. I'm nearly finished as well. That's a pain, isn't it? It's a sign saying, don't do any more up. Go home and have a rest. I'm leaving unfinished now. We'll have a think, but if I do decide to do it, I'll film some more. If I don't, I'll see you tomorrow. Good afternoon. Right, so what you just saw there was my dinner from last night, and my mum's going to be horrified because she always says that I make my dinners look like a dog's dinner. It's because I mash it all up. I don't like separate food, so I add potato mash, celeriac mash, which tastes a bit like a celery and a turnip, sausages and sprouts with some gravy that I make extra thick. So it's all mashed together like a dog's dinner. It's because I eat on the floor like a dog, and because I lean on one side, I've only got one hand, so I can't really cut up the food. That's my excuse anyway. So we've been out the house today from half eight till about four o'clock. We've done little, but we've shopped. We've bought ourselves a solar panelled, I think it's called Cloutier Electric. I'm overlaying the image of it now. Yeah, so that should see us through. Pascal will be coming here Thursday because on Wednesday there's going to be a storm, so the ground's going to be nice and wet. And Elisa and I are just off to go pick up the kids. Laters!