This English-language aggregator of news in France sometimes generates lighter items about culture and life for anglophones in La France.

One of them is a list of rural French habits we might pick up while living in small-town France.

One of them, the first … yes, I can see already. This saying “bonjour” to literally everyone with whom you make eye contact. To not say bonjour is a major social faux pas.

The rest?

Not yet. And some are hard to imagine.

On the “maybe” list of local habits is “expecting business to be closed from noon till 2.” Or later. That already pops in my mind, when it is early in the afternoon,

Also, “knowing to avoid the hunt”. Hunting season is from October till about now, and we have seen some guys with shotguns out and about. You don’t want to walk through deep bush unless you are wearing florescent green or orange.

And embracing jeans? I did that decades ago.

But a bunch of these, becoming part of our lives any time soon? Uh, no.

Don’t see a garden in the near future. Don’t expect to have long chats with locals if for no other reason than because my French isn’t good enough to have a conversation with a toddler.

Not going to become a “forager” — picking berries off bushes, etc. I am not confident enough in my ability to identify edible versus inedible to do that any time soon.

Giving up TV? Nope. I am watching more television than at any time in my adult life. (The ability to toggle several English-language productions from French to English is huge.)

The “chair in the garden” thing? One of us is embracing that but it isn’t me … and it seems a lot less likely during the warm seasons coming up. The sun will be out there all the time.

Following the lunar cycle? Not going to happen.

Still it is interesting to see what someone else thought might grow on anglophones. Maybe I should check back in five years, if we are still here.