A Brida Table starts with a question, but nobody knows where the conversation will end. A small international group meets in English, with a host who keeps the conversation open and gives everyone room to bring something of their own life to the table. No lesson to complete. No right answer to find. Just people…
The Human Bit, by Frank Peters It began with a sales email. Someone had apparently visited the Brida website and noticed the language services we offered. Only we don’t really offer language services. Not in the way the email imagined them. The message was personal enough to look personal, but not quite personal enough to…
Staring from the surface of the moon as the spaceship leaves without me. It was supposed to be a standard, productive Monday. We had just come off a lovely weekend—the kind filled with places to go, things to do, and people to see. I had my to-do list ready. The Mayor had his. We had…
HUSBAND: “You seem happier.” ME: “Thanks, I uploaded our whole argument into ChatGPT and it said I was right.” My husband is currently sitting on the couch watching rugby while I cook, clean, organise the house, and deal with everything that needs dealing with. And this man’s biggest responsibility today is apparently keeping the couch…
By Ismar, in Brazil. I have always believed there is a line between being interested in another person and entering a part of their life that does not belong to you. Then I started dancing, met new people and discovered that sometimes curiosity opens a door rather than crosses a boundary. When I was a…
By our editor, Janita Le Grange. It is a simple question, but if I’m being completely honest, I ask it of myself at least half a dozen times a day. Take WhatsApp, for instance. I will open a message, read it carefully, compose a brilliant, thoughtful response entirely in my head, and then walk away….
By Fruitloop and The Mayor, and it’s ok if you don’t understand. We don’t either. Or? At Fruitloop University’s magical supermarket, a dragon, an alien, a mermaid and a nervous garden gnome discover that the difficult part is rarely finding the answer. It is having the nerve to ask the question. There are supermarkets, and…
By Rosie, Brazil, Fruitloop, South Africa and The Mayor, France. Some questions make us stop and think. Others send us towards fortune tellers, forbidden soup and aliens building pyramids. At Lunch, apparently, both kinds are equally important. The conversation started, as Lunch conversations often do, somewhere between ordinary life and mild chaos. Rosii arrived tired…
Brida brings a small international group around a hosted table, in English, to talk about the life already happening around them. No lessons. No performance. Just room to speak, listen, and see where the conversation goes. For more information send a WhatsApp to Frank or Janita on +33 7 49 01 84 85 Welcome to…
By Bruce Lloyd, The United Kingdom and Frank Peters, France. I arrived with my head full of programming. Bruce arrived with questions. Somewhere in the untidiness between the two, we found something worth talking about. I walked into my conversation with Bruce badly prepared. Not deliberately. I had simply been engrossed in something completely different….
