Tha gaol agam oirbh.

If you see a horseshoe crab on the beach, gently nudge it with your foot. Most of them will respond by waving their telson around. If it doesn’t respond, flip it over to check for moving limbs. If you suspect it is tangled and can’t move and you can’t bring it straight to the water because of this get a bucket of sea water and slowly pour it over the book gills and legs. As you work to untangle these rad critters, which are actually more closely related to spiders than crabs, pour more water over it periodically until you can return it to the ocean. However, during the mating season horseshoe crabs will attach together, with the large female toting around a smaller male behind her, and bury themselves in sand and mud to lay their eggs. Do not dig up these horseshoe crabs unless you are absolutely sure that they are stuck above the high tide mark. If you see dozens of beached horseshoe crabs but none of them are clinging together and the tide is going out, please do your part and turn them back in the direction of the water. Place them at the water’s edge and let them decide which direction they want to go in to be absolutely sure that they aren’t stranded accidentally.

Horseshoe crabs cannot bite you, and their “pincers” are really just for picking up food and don’t hurt if they try to grab you. They may be a little intimidating-looking but they are harmless and will be grateful for your help.

Just look at all those friendly legs waiting to tickle you in thanks for helping them not die a slow death of baking in the sun and getting eaten by gulls and other sea birds!

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omg

unproblematic favs

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

Or do you mean Gavin Slee?

Bonjour! Here’s the link to all my posts tagged ‘film’. If you scroll down a little, you’ll be able to find a list I wrote of my favourite French films, as well as links to websites where you can watch them for free. 

As for French series, unfortunately American series are by far the most watched and loved (as far as my experience in French households go with teenagers, anyway). French series exist, of course, but most often American shows are played on TV dubbed in French. I tend to watch these shows in French - it takes a little getting used to at the beginning if you’ve never watched anything dubbed before (i.e. the mouths don’t match exactly to what you hear) and if you’ve seen the show before in English, the voices are different which is funny sometimes. But generally I think it’s great, especially if you’re not an advanced learner, because when you’ve seen something before in your own language, it makes it much easier to understand it when watching again in a foreign language. I watch:

Gossip Girl in French.

Pretty Little Liars in French.

Skins in French.

Tellement vrai (interesting documentary show on random topics).

The Returned (creepy but awesome).

Le Tunnel (The Tunnel - bits in English and French).

Le petit journal (not a series but about current affairs).

I tend to also watch a lot on Youtube, because there are some great French youtubers - you’ll find a list of them here.

And here’s a website I found which suggests 10 TV series which are great for French learners.

To find all series, try:

Series on regarder-film-gratuit.com

Series on streaming-series.org

Series on vkstreaming-series.com

Or simply enter ‘regarder [name of TV show] streaming gratuit’ into google.fr