Comments on: The Bells! The Bells! http://julesritter.com/2008/07/the-bells-the-bells/ Sun, 06 May 2012 18:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jules http://julesritter.com/2008/07/the-bells-the-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Jules Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:27:52 +0000 http://julesritter.com/?p=425#comment-403 Tractors? Don't mention tractors! These are driven be 14 year old boys like maniacs through the village heady with the freedom of their first wheels only they have no idea of the danger of the bloody things. They especially seem to forget how wide they are and if I happen to be merrily walking along with near-sighted Molly and one of these hormone bombs comes towards us we have to take get out their way, quick. These tractors are also the very reason we do not have any sleeping policemen in our village because the farmers always rule against them on the pretext that they will obstruct the tractors on their way to the fields! Tractors rule above children, people and pets. Voilà! Tractors? Don’t mention tractors! These are driven be 14 year old boys like maniacs through the village heady with the freedom of their first wheels only they have no idea of the danger of the bloody things. They especially seem to forget how wide they are and if I happen to be merrily walking along with near-sighted Molly and one of these hormone bombs comes towards us we have to take get out their way, quick. These tractors are also the very reason we do not have any sleeping policemen in our village because the farmers always rule against them on the pretext that they will obstruct the tractors on their way to the fields! Tractors rule above children, people and pets. Voilà!

]]> By: Nadia http://julesritter.com/2008/07/the-bells-the-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Nadia Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:54:19 +0000 http://julesritter.com/?p=425#comment-404 Yes, but so endearing... I think it's rather cute! Although I possibly would have shot your bell tower by now with a 12-gauge shotgun. Your Mme Clot sounds wonderful - more like most of the Swiss I know, rather than the peasants you usually describe... And said peasants actually sound just like all the French peasants living around me. Could it be a rural thing, and not a cultural/nationality thing, do you think? I mean the disagreable-ness, the "we-know-everything-and-you're-a-hopeless-city-person" thing, not to mention the "I-own-the-road-on-my-tractor-going-2-klicks-an-hour-ha-ha-ha-ha" thing...? Yes, but so endearing… I think it’s rather cute! Although I possibly would have shot your bell tower by now with a 12-gauge shotgun.

Your Mme Clot sounds wonderful – more like most of the Swiss I know, rather than the peasants you usually describe… And said peasants actually sound just like all the French peasants living around me.

Could it be a rural thing, and not a cultural/nationality thing, do you think? I mean the disagreable-ness, the “we-know-everything-and-you’re-a-hopeless-city-person” thing, not to mention the “I-own-the-road-on-my-tractor-going-2-klicks-an-hour-ha-ha-ha-ha” thing…?

]]> By: Martin http://julesritter.com/2008/07/the-bells-the-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-405 Martin Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:28:57 +0000 http://julesritter.com/?p=425#comment-405 Hi Jules, CLAPPER - but what would you expect from an ex-campanologist ! Then again, it is rather worrying that a Swiss clock doesn't appear to know what the time is - n'est-ce pas? Hi Jules,

CLAPPER – but what would you expect from an ex-campanologist !

Then again, it is rather worrying that a Swiss clock doesn’t appear to know what the time is – n’est-ce pas?

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