Three French Hens

Yet more foreign birds.  Is my true love trying to tell me something?

Not sure what the advantages of a French chicken would be.  Big coqs for making making Coq au Vin? (aka French Dogging).

And why three?  That's a lot to eat.  Maybe you're meant to keep them and have them around the place, discussing existential novels, smoking Gitanes and not cleaning their teeth.   Although, to be fair, as they're hens, I'll let them off that last one.


Despite the poncy hens, I do like France.  There are so many things that the French have given us that we Brits simply do not appreciate.  Here is just one.

Lee as a middle name - In France, many surnames are 'Le something-or-other', such as Le Roux, Le Noir etc.  Although we don't have the same tradition over here, we have somehow subsumed acceptance of the middle 'Le' by the simple addition of an extra 'e', so that, in one way at least, we don't consider Dave Lee Travis to be abnormal.

There are many 'Lees' who can trace their names back to French origins:

Dave Lee Travis - Literally 'Dave the Hairy Cornflake'.  Travis is composed of two Wallonian words. Tra - meaning 'hair'  and Vis, which is wheat chaff left over from milling.    Only joking.  It is from T'ravise, which is Parisian slang for 'perhaps not a peado after all'.

Justin Lee Collins - From the Breton co linnes  which translates as  'abusive yokel'.

Jaime Lee Curtis - Curtise: French for 'I still would'.

So maybe not three French hens.  Will a chick and two pointless cocks do?