The Musketeers' three-times-table

Les Trois Mousquetaires ou
Le collier de la Reine

A French aide-memoire running from "one times three is three" up to "ten times three is thirty"... with a little help from Athos, Porthos and Aramis :-D

(at any rate, it amused me...)

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Les Trois Mousquetaires
Vont en Angleterre ;
Leur habit porte une croix,
Trois fois un, trois.

Penchés au bord du bateau,
Ils voient leur reflet dans l'eau,
Athos, Porthos, Aramis !
Trois fois deux, six.

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Kino-horoscope in full

From the writer's own website (and, by the look of it, from his 1999 autobiography): https://www.smekhov.narod.ru/Athos/finalm.html

I haven't attempted to do more than skim the chapter, but it appears to contain a complete transcript of the Athos poem, something I've been diligently chasing ever since I discovered there was a *longer* version, heard recited on stage but minus helpful subtitles...

(Pointless, I know, but I was really curious to find out what it said!)

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Flower update: we have the first mesembryanthemum, the first feverfew (after two years) and the first marigold. The sweet peas are proving a great success, being a beautiful dark purple and sufficiently scented -- and sufficiently high off the ground -- to actually produce a noticeable perfume on the air without having to be sniffed at extreme close quarters :-)