Nouns and Worms

Louis has recently discovered the dreaded gender problem in French. All nouns are masculine or feminine, even if they are plainly not girls or boys. Why is a nose masculine and an ear feminine? A knife masculine and a fork feminine? You just have to remember the gender of every new noun that you learn.  François helpfully told him that Mamie still makes mistakes, even after all these years. I hope that this revelation will be a motivation, and not a discouragement.

This afternoon, as it is Wednesday, Louis was invited to play with Timothée. Sacha helped François to pot some chrysanthamums, and was pleased to find a ladybird in the garden as well as various worms.