Bons Mots

One of the things I like about the French people and their language is their ready willingness to prefix words with "Bon".

Bonjour, bonsoir, bon journée are fine but I've been collecting other common, not so common and frankly bizarre uses:

• Bon fin de journée/ soirée/ weekend - from everyone almost all the time
• Bon travaux - (Good working) - from Matthieu at the quarry
• Bon continuation - (Good continuation)- Matthieu's alternative good wish to go with another trailer full of sand or gravel
• Bon courage - (good luck, although I think it really means good luck as you are clearly mad) - from French neighbours or delivery men when they see the status of our project
• Bon plantation - (good planting ..... ?!) from the woman on the checkout at the nursery centre
• Bon route - anytime getting into the car
• Bon appetit - I struggle to find the correct English for this. "Enjoy your meal" isn't right, "good eating" not correct and a bit clumsy. It's really just a good wish to enjoy that most important thing in French life, good food.

I'm still collecting, followers are welcome to contribute any others. French readers are welcome to correct any of my misunderstandings or mistranslations !!