FEELS LIKE SPRING...taboo v pleasure
A quiet word about the change in weather... This "housewife" was far removed from perfect yesterday as she sat with her friends sipping wine in the evening spring sunshine. Needless to say she was feeling just as far removed from "desperate." We all love our partners and families but what is it that makes sitting around with your girlfriends, at any age, sometimes just the best place to be. Perhaps it is because we are all "ex pats" and with partners of another culture that these stolen moments are glorified. France is the country of wine and food...and yet it is still a taboo for women to drink. This is often a topic of conversation amongst my friends. Whereas in our anglo/american culture the men hover around with chardonnay bottles topping up our glasses, their french counterparts are asking us if we " have had enough." A woman drinking to laughter point is considered the last bastion of vulgarity in France...no, I simply don't...