Bonne Fête de la Saint-Jean!

                                                                                                        (Icone)

A l’occasion de la Fête de la St Jean, nous célébrerons joyeusement l’été en profitant du jour le plus long de l’année.

·•·•· Plus qu’une fete, une tradition

Depuis de milliers d’années, en l’honneur de la St Jean-Baptiste, la nuit du 24 au 25 Juin réunit tous les habitants des villages autour d’un grand feu de joie

La tradition veut que chacun apporte quelques brindilles, des branches mortes, des vieux papiers afin d’alimenter les flammes de ce bûcher du bonheur.

En plus de rapprocher les villageois, le but de ce rassemblement est de fêter le solstice d’été et de bénir les rayons bienfaiteurs du soleil.
Une soirée magique…
En plus d’être une fête religieuse, certains racontent que cette soirée mystique a des vertus magiques. En effet, en plus d’offrir un spectacle magnifique, le feu aurait le pouvoir apporter chance et bonheur à ceux qui lui rendaient honneur.
http://cybermag.cybercartes.com/celebrons-le-grand-feu-de-la-st-jean/

Animosité persistante à Lac-Brome

Allégations. Suspension. Enquête. Accusation. L’animosité se fait de plus en plus forte au sein du conseil de ville à Lac-Brome. La semaine dernière, le maire Gilles Decelles a clairement pointé du doigt la gestion du directeur général Jean Bourret...

New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper turns up the heat even as she chills readers to the bone with a new suspense novel that distills the essence of fear itself. In this relentless thriller, two psychics put more than their lives on the line to stop a killer darker and more evil than they could ever imagine. . . .

FBI agent Quentin Hayes always knew he had an unusual talent, even before he was recruited by Noah Bishop for the controversial Special Crimes Unit. But, as gifted as he is, for twenty years he’s been haunted by a heartbreaking unsolved murder that took place at The Lodge, a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee. Now he’s returned one final time, determined to put the mystery to rest.

Diana Brisco has come there hoping to unlock the mystery of her troubled past. Instead, she is assailed by nightmares and the vision of a child who vanished from The Lodge years ago. And an FBI agent is trying to convince her that she isn’t crazy but that she has a rare gift, a gift that could catch a killer.

Quentin knows that this is his last chance to solve a case that has become a dangerous obsession. But can he persuade Diana to help him, knowing what it could cost her? For something cold and dark and pure evil is stalking the grounds of The Lodge. Something Diana may not survive. Something Quentin never felt before: the chill of fear.

 

Martin : ''Today Mathieu graduates kindergarten. Graduation is a big deal at our school and everyone, the school and the families, get involved. There's a strong sense of community at St-Mary's and it's always pleasant to participate to these events. In fact, our school is a great motivator for us not to move back on the island..''

 

graduation de Matieu

 

Sabrina et Suzanne

 

Sabrina, Mathieu, Madame Sophie  This picture says it all. ''We're going to miss you a lot, Sophie ''

 

Dernière journée de maternelle avec Madame Sophie.

Once upon a time I had the perfect family. I had the perfect husband. I had the perfect children. I had the perfect life in the perfect home. And then, as in all fairy tales, evil came into our lives and destroyed us.

Four years after the unsolved disappearance of her sixteen-year-old daughter, Lauren Lawton is the only one still chasing the ghosts of her perfect Santa Barbara life. The world has given her daughter up for dead. Her husband ended his own life in the aftermath. Even Lauren’s younger daughter is desperate to find what’s left of the childhood she hasn’t been allowed to have.

Lauren knows exactly who took her oldest child, but there is not a shred of evidence against the man. Even as he stalks her family, Lauren is powerless to stop him. The Santa Barbara police are handcuffed by the very laws they are sworn to uphold. Looking for a fresh start in a town with no memories, Lauren and her younger daughter Leah move to idyllic Oak Knoll. But when Lauren’s suspect turns up in the same city, it feels to all the world that history is about to repeat itself. Leah Lawton will soon turn sixteen, and Oak Knoll has a cunning predator on the hunt.

Sheriff’s detective Tony Mendez and his team begin to close in on the suspected killer, desperate to keep the young women of their picturesque town safe. But as the investigators sift through the murky circumstances of an increasingly disturbing case, a stunning question changes everything they thought they knew. In Down the Darkest Road, #1 New York Times bestseller Tami Hoag proves again why she is one

the world’s most beloved storytellers.  Excellent -  page turner

 

I can't clean the aquarium...

''About 10-12 days ago, just as I was getting the kids ready to bed, Suzanne discover to our amazement that our fish had had babies... They are so cute, so minuscule, so fragile in fact that I'm afraid to clean the tank with the vacuum I usually use to clean it. Let's just say it's slowly getting grungy.

Needless to say we care for these babies as much as we do for our 3 surviving platys.

We could see 3 small babies. However, they've grown significantly in the span of 10 days and tonight I was able to count 5, maybe 6 new fish in the aquarium. I'm still not cleaning it, but I think I will soon be able to.'' Martin

 

Bonne Fête des Pères

 

Parce que j'aime cette photo - prise à Bath, Maine, pêcherie d'homards.
Le 16 juin :  naissance d'Alexandre; naissance de Paula (maman de Max). Fête des Pères, Anniversaire de mariage de mes parents, de tante Laurette et oncle Roland; de Marcel et de Carmel.

 

J'aime ton menu Sabri - tu le cuisinais aussi?

 

Suzanne et Sabrina

 

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence service. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere. Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a secret mission codenamed Sweet Tooth, which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one.

Ce premier livre sur mon IPad - 

Rêves, cauchemars… Que veulent-ils nous dire ?

50 % de la population dort environ 7 heures par nuit, ce qui laisse amplement le temps aux rêves ou aux cauchemars de se succéder dans notre inconscient. PasseportSanté vous propose d'en apprendre davantage sur leur signification…

Le désir d’interpréter et de comprendre les rêves remonte à la mythologie grecque, lorsque ces derniers étaient étroitement associés aux divinités. Ce n’est qu’assez récemment que des études empiriques sur la nature des songes ont été menées. Malgré les différentes recherches et les hypothèses émises au cours des siècles, le rôle et l’importance du rêve demeurent incertains.

La période de sommeil se décline en 5 phases distinctes :

■L’endormissement est composé de deux stades : la somnolence et l’assoupissement. La somnolence se caractérise par une perte de tonus musculaire et un ralentissement du rythme cardiaque, avant de s’assoupir.

■Le sommeil léger représente 50 % du temps de sommeil complet pour une nuit. Durant cette phase, la personne est assoupie, mais elle est très sensible aux stimuli externes.

■Le sommeil lent profond est la phase d’installation au sommeil profond. C’est à ce moment que l’activité cérébrale ralentit le plus.

■Le sommeil profond est la phase la plus intense de la période de repos, durant laquelle l’ensemble du corps (les muscles et le cerveau) est endormi. Cette phase est la plus importante du sommeil car elle permet de récupérer la fatigue physique accumulée. C’est aussi à ce moment que peut survenir le somnambulisme.

■Le sommeil paradoxal est appelé ainsi car à ce stade le cerveau émet des ondes rapides, les yeux de la personne sont en mouvement et la respiration devient irrégulière. Alors que ces signes peuvent laisser croire que la personne est sur le point de s’éveiller, elle se trouve encore dans un sommeil profond. Bien que les rêves puissent survenir durant d’autres phases telles que le sommeil léger, ils se manifestent principalement durant la phase du sommeil paradoxal qui occupe environ 25 % du temps de repos.

Un cycle de sommeil dure entre 90 et 120 minutes. Ces cycles, qui peuvent survenir à raison de 3 à 5 par nuit sont entrecoupés de courtes périodes d’éveil appelées sommeil intermédiaire. La personne n’a toutefois pas conscience de ces brefs moments. De nombreux rêves peuvent immerger de l’esprit d’une personne durant une nuit de repos sans toutefois qu’elle s’en souvienne au réveil. Dès que la personne entre de nouveau dans la phase du sommeil lent, 10 minutes suffisent pour que le rêve soit effacé de la mémoire. C’est pourquoi la plupart des gens ne se souviennent que du rêve qui a précédé leur éveil. (suite)
http://www.passeportsante.net/



pour toi Martin xxx

Croatie

  

Croatie

 

Puis nous nous sommes sauvés de Osijek parce que la drava semblait vouloir sortir de son lit tout comme le Danube. Ghislaine

Istanbul

 

Bonjour,

Nous avons quitté la place Taksim à Istanbul juste avant les émeutes. Ghislaine

Istanbul

 

 

et son skateboard

As detective Carol Jordan is set to move from downand-out Bradfield to a new post in nearby'and less crime-ridden'Worcester, Tony Hill, her longtime criminal-psychologist colleague, wonders if there might also be new horizons for their complicated relationship: he and Carol have been brought together professionally over the years by ruthless crimes, which has led to an undeniable'but maddeningly stalled'personal connection. But sex workers are being targeted and viciously killed in Bradfield, and it's up to Carol to determine if the murders are connected'and where the killer might strike next.Meanwhile, in a nearby prison, someone is dreaming of rare steak, fine wine'and revenge. Jacko Vance, former sports hero and TV celebrity, murdered almost twenty teenage girls before being caught. He knows exactly who is responsible for putting him behind bars, and Tony and Carol are at the top of the list. Following an audacious escape, he's on the loose and planning to teach them all a lesson they will never forget. Now the pair are squarely in a psychopath's crosshairs'and he's just getting started."

''Here's a picture of Suzanne at work...
Pretty cool !!! The art on the wall was done for her by one of the artists in-house. And people can bring their dogs, and their skateboards. My perfect place for work'' Martin

Ed Eagle, the six-feet-six, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and-more treacherously-his ex-wife, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed's past...and put him in danger once more.

Santa Fe attorney Ed Eagle’s murderous ex-wife and assorted lesser satellites continue to hatch plots at cross-purposes, all as inconclusively as ever.

In the nine weeks since she was sent to a Mexican prison for attempted murder (Santa Fe Dead, 2008), Barbara Eagle Keeler hasn’t been wasting her time. She’s been using the episodes of rape by Warden Pedro Alvarez to gather information that will help her escape and work more havoc back in the United States. Assisted more directly by James Long, the film producer who’s not only her lover but the prospective colleague of Ed’s new wife Susannah Wilde, she hatches a plan to kill Ed and his bride. When they get a whiff of Barbara’s escape despite Alvarez’s insistence that she was merely transferred to another prison, Ed’s longtime private eyes, Cupie Dalton and Vittorio, decide that their best defense against her is a good offense. Not enough malfeasance for you? Soon after Ed gets the murder charges against his latest client, golf pro Tip Hanks, dismissed, Tip takes on a new personal assistant, Dolly Parks, who just happens to be the serial embezzler who killed Tip’s wife. Meanwhile, Todd Bacon, the CIA’s station chief in Panama, is hot in pursuit of Teddy Fay, the CIA agent turned assassin who’s eluded every attempt made to catch him. None of this violent, weightless intrigue goes anywhere, of course, but the dialogue, reeking with obtuse self-assurance, is full of guilty pleasures, from Ed’s admonition to Susannah (“If you keep on shooting people we’re going to end up in court”) to Barbara’s prayer entreating a disputed legacy from the Almighty (“If you’ll let me have this money, I’ll never kill anybody again, not even Ed Eagle!”).

Commentaires :“The book just ends without any plot being developed or anything being tied up.”
''This is by far the worst book Stuart Woods have written I just started reading about Ed Eagle and I was really begin to like his books.''
“There's so much better out there, there's no reason to waste one's time on stuff like this.” 



 

 

Leçons de skateboard

Rush hour on the underground and a killer is at large in London, striking apparently haphazardly in a series of vicious attacks. Andy Brewster, ex-SAS, on sick leave from active service in Iraq, works undercover for the Metropolitan police with his bomb expert partner, Burgess. Together they must find the killer before he strikes again. So far the victims have all been women with no apparent connection. Beth Hardy, former caterer who now runs a gourmet food shop; her daughter Imogen, dancing at the National; sad Celeste with her terrible secret; widowed Margaret, in town to shop; and American tourist, Ellie, stranded there alone. Each of them regularly travels by tube not knowing they could be potential victims. When the July 7 bombs go off and public awareness is raised, Brewster and Burgess have a race against time to apprehend the stalker. But danger comes not just from knives and bombs. Murder is deadlier when the heart is involve

Vraiment bizarre...mais on veut toujours en savoir plus...(sinon je ne l'aurais pas lu)... le punch arrive à la fin!

 

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