Day 2688 (Thursday) 17th October 2024
No nice photos today but Huw found this one of in Villeneuve Loubet with a storm warning.
We’ve had orange storm warnings and this afternoon it went to red but it didn’t really come to anything other than some heavy rain this afternoon. Huw took me to Beaulieu this morning to meet Florence but when she arrived she told me that couldn’t have a lesson because she has lots of problems in work and she signed away the rest of the lessons. I’ve been working with her family for about six years so it’s hard to imagine not seeing them again.
Huw carried on with his painting and decorating and Badger walked across the door he was painting.
When he had finished Badger went to sleep under a plastic sheet in the hallway – I don’t think he realises plastic isn’t good for him.
This yacht was in the bay this morning…
Drizzle yacht not for charter – 301’2/91.8m
Elevator for easy access between floors
Master cabin with study
Impressive 5,500nm range
Premium beauty and wellness amenities, including spa and beach club
Brand new for 2024
The 91.8m/301'2" motor yacht 'Drizzle' was built by Feadship in the Netherlands at their Makkum shipyard. Her interior is styled by Dutch designer design house Sinot Yacht Design and she was delivered to her owner in July 2024. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Sinot Yacht Design.
Guest accommodation Drizzle has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 14 guests in 7 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 18 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.
Onboard Comfort and entertainment Her features include a spa, beauty salon, elevator, underwater lights, beach club, gym, deck jacuzzi, WiFi and air conditioning.
Range and performance Drizzle is built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. Powered by twin diesel-electric MTU (16V4000M65L) 3,433hp engines running at 1800rpm, she comfortably cruises at 12 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 17 knots with a range of up to 5,500 nautical miles at 12 knots. She was built to BV (Bureau Veritas) classification society rules.
Owner & guests
14
Cabins
7
Crew
18
Speciation M/Y Drizzle
Fish and Ships: 15 of the most bizarre French - English translations – the Local France
Photo: @ohheyyjen/instagram
No doubt, translating between French and English is a tough job, but these translators must have had absolutely terrible days at work.
Some of these are just odd, others are plain wrong, and some translators have given up completely and gone home.
"Piece of the butcher anyone?"
1. Ze classic Engleesh fish and ships
redamidjek/ Instagram
2. How to confuse your children
Both the French and English are wrong here, this whole image is just a mess.
@MBlake482/ Twitter
3. The best shirts are made inside a real Turkey
A classic Google translate error here, when Turquie (the country) is mistaken for dinde (the bird).
4. In France, toothpaste is basically your personal assistant.
Ok, ok "émail" is a French word for enamel, but it made us chuckle anyway.
Charlotte Pines/ Instagram
5. Tuck into a delicious "piece of the butcher" at this restaurant
Or perhaps a "silly chocolate pear" is more to your taste? We've pointed to our favourites, but there's plenty more to find on the menu.
Sent in by reader Wendy Bond Brookes
6. Wine from a stranger or wine that is "more strange"?
This shopkeeper fell victim to the étranger double meaning of both "stranger" and "foreign".
@ohheyyjen/instagram
7. Always check your translations over before you go ahead and print it on your window
Little known fact: goats made entirely of cheese and "campinge deer" are said to roam countryside in some parts of France.
Gideon/Flickr
8. These little frogs are having a terrible time of it in the park
If the English translation wasn't weird enough already, why do the exclamation marks get translated to question marks?? Is even the writer even questioning what he's talking about ??
Simon Doggett/Flickr
9. Keep up the hard work, room.
"Room under construction" could have been a better alternative.
Andrew Ross/Flickr
10. No hygienic napkins here
Whoever wrote this has got their serviettes (napkins) and serviettes hygéniques (sanitary towels) in a mix up.
ElPadawan/Flickr
You'd have thought we'd be on safe ground with numbers, but even they seem to have some translators in a twist.
11. This pasta dish takes an extra 20 minutes if you cook it in French.
porkchopsammich/ Reddit
12. While this tent takes five minutes less time to set up in French.
expldplastic/ Imgur
13. And this 24-port ethernet switch only has 16 ports for French speakers.
iammandalore/ Reddit
Some translators decided to just pack it all in and call it a day...
14. A quick and simple way to translate text is to just write the name of the language in front of it.
Works like a charm.
Smacksaw/ Imgur
15. Or even just repeating "French translation" over and over makes the words appear by magic
How did this get past anyone in the office?
@DohMtl/ Twitter
By Rose Trigg
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