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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
Sticking to the Parisian theme, this blog is artist Joanna
Walsh’s distinctive take on life in Paris, featuring her
witty, thought-provoking comments and interesting
illustrations jotted down in notebooks during her walks
around the city. The site is designed as a sort of visual
diary, where visitors can start at a picture at any point and
read the story associated with it. The illustrations and
stories are nicely intertwined, and the author’s English
background gives her a different perspective of Paris, one
to which many readers will be able to relate. Her view of a
Sunday in Paris, with groups of friends and families in
cafés or queuing at the boulangerie, has a particularly
French feel to it. She writes about the fact that only certain
things can be bought on a Sunday, with no outings to garden centres or DIY stores, and that
people in France spend their Sundays with the family, as used to be the case in England. The
name of the blog, Badaude, is a word defined as ‘a person given to idle observation of everything
with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler’. The definition is a good one for
Mme Walsh, but understates her talents as a storyteller and artist.
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