Very quick pop in. I'm in Toulouse, in IKEA actually. Desperately in need of more tables and chairs and this is the only store they have stock of the ones we have. We continue to be busy and have had to use outdoor tables and chairs indoors this week in the upstairs tearoom, I'm not happy with the look, despite tablecloths, and the week after next we are hosting a Christmas market and will need the outdoor furniture outdoors, so 6 hour round trip it had to be.
I'm popping in to read thread as often as possible, but not a lot of time to write. But thinking of you all. Hosted an Indian Soirée last night, very pleased with my vindaloo and great feedback from customers. Hosting a Thai food truck next week, guest appearance as it were, least I get a night off.
So hugs and best wishes to all. Catch up soon.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
I saw that on the news yesterday, hosta - brilliant
I'm trying to think who it is that guy looks like - reminds me of someone
I wasn't aware there was an issue with calling 11th November 'Armistice Day' - must have passed me by. Dad always watched the cenotaph ceremonies (fan of marching bands - he loved the music) and we kept the 11am silence but my recollection was always of that being on Remembrance Sunday, not on Armistice Day. Although we did keep it at school (70s/80s), I think there has been a bit of a resurgence in the wider marking of the 'proper' Armistice Day silence in the last ten years or so
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Thanks @Hostafan1. I saw that live on the news last night and loved it. He's done well.
It is cool and grey here and we had wet bits overnight and early morning. Set to be cold for the next week or so. We've been putting on the CH at abut 7pm but it may need to go on earlier.
I have a banana bread to make for Monday's patch and then I'm off to sort out the shelves of pots in the polytunnel as I'm going to need them for pricked out seedlings. Quite a few baby escholzia showing now, lovely reds and purples rather than day-glo orange and yellow and a few achillea popping thru now and some cornfield mix seedlings.
Hope all blood tests and so on go well. I'm expecting my results any day now but just a usual MOT test so not worried. Glad you're feeling better @tui34 and that you've had some rain @Pat E.
@Dovefromabove for 1914 all the village war memorials were cleaned and the names of those lost or fallen were picked out in fresh gold leaf. Our village memorial had many village family names, repeated several times as either Deported, Executed (Resistance) or Lost in Action for those who made it to the UK and fought from there. Huge impact on the small, rural village it was then.
Some of those lost locally included a troop of Boy Scouts caught spying on German troop and train movements. All adolescents and non combatants so no Geneva convention for them. They ended up as slaves in German factories and most died. I heard one of the survivors talk about forgiveness at a ceremony in 1995 to mark 50 years since the end of WW2. Amazing man.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
he's the lovely Owain who does the weather on BBC North West. he talks like he's chatting over the fence and knows us all and is just gorgeous and has the most amazing range of 3 piece suits, always immaculate, even with longer hair during lockdown, unlike scruffy Tomasz Schafernacker.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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I'm popping in to read thread as often as possible, but not a lot of time to write. But thinking of you all. Hosted an Indian Soirée last night, very pleased with my vindaloo and great feedback from customers. Hosting a Thai food truck next week, guest appearance as it were, least I get a night off.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-59273872
Look out for the very sexy drummer around 43 seconds.
I'm trying to think who it is that guy looks like - reminds me of someone
I wasn't aware there was an issue with calling 11th November 'Armistice Day' - must have passed me by. Dad always watched the cenotaph ceremonies (fan of marching bands - he loved the music) and we kept the 11am silence but my recollection was always of that being on Remembrance Sunday, not on Armistice Day. Although we did keep it at school (70s/80s), I think there has been a bit of a resurgence in the wider marking of the 'proper' Armistice Day silence in the last ten years or so
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It is cool and grey here and we had wet bits overnight and early morning. Set to be cold for the next week or so. We've been putting on the CH at abut 7pm but it may need to go on earlier.
I have a banana bread to make for Monday's patch and then I'm off to sort out the shelves of pots in the polytunnel as I'm going to need them for pricked out seedlings. Quite a few baby escholzia showing now, lovely reds and purples rather than day-glo orange and yellow and a few achillea popping thru now and some cornfield mix seedlings.
Hope all blood tests and so on go well. I'm expecting my results any day now but just a usual MOT test so not worried. Glad you're feeling better @tui34 and that you've had some rain @Pat E.
@Dovefromabove for 1914 all the village war memorials were cleaned and the names of those lost or fallen were picked out in fresh gold leaf. Our village memorial had many village family names, repeated several times as either Deported, Executed (Resistance) or Lost in Action for those who made it to the UK and fought from there. Huge impact on the small, rural village it was then.
Some of those lost locally included a troop of Boy Scouts caught spying on German troop and train movements. All adolescents and non combatants so no Geneva convention for them. They ended up as slaves in German factories and most died. I heard one of the survivors talk about forgiveness at a ceremony in 1995 to mark 50 years since the end of WW2. Amazing man.
dordogne damsel, I do wish I lived nearer! I’d be in there all the time! Looks just like my sort of place!