From Alberte Larue
Fred Pearce writes that the clean-up of the UK’s Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site is scheduled to end by 2120, in 105 years (24 January, p 8). This brings to mind a common saying here in France. It translates as “we are not going to wait for 107 years” – which is to say, we are not going to wait forever. The origin may have something to do with a long dispute between our countries.
Compiègne, France
