La lutte éternelle entre les alouettes et les hiboux

 

Rendez-vous demain à 7h30! Non, mieux à 7h! -- Ce n'est pas mieux -- C'est juste plus tôt // Let's meet tomorrow at 7.30! No, better at 7! -- It's not better -- It's just earlier

There is a facade repair going outside our window right now. Several guys turn up in the morning on a platform suspended from the roof and then go up and down the whole day, doing what needs to be done, talking and playing music. 

I must say the work they are doing is very necessary, but I do have an issue with their working hours. They seem to be turning up earlier and earlier every day.

Which reminded me of a small conversation from the very beginning of my working life, which you can read in the pic. I have to add that we were a tiny, recently formed private company, all working very hard and that our boss was a lark, that is to say an early bird, and proud of it.

The eternal struggle between larks and owls goes on (and on, and on).

C'est une règle de grand-mère

Grandma rules!

It took me a long time time to recover after the binge-drawing of Inktober .

Didn't really know what to draw, so here is a little episode from our French class. I was late as usual, and as I was entering, I heard our teacher say "C'est une règle de grand-mère", It's a grandmother rule. I wasn't really surprised, since surely some such rule is bound to exist.
Only a few minutes later, when we were told to look the rule up in our books, I realized it was not grand-mère, but grammaire that was ruling. 

To my ear these two sound remarkably similar.