What I miss when I go to England now is decent coffee whether staying with rellies or friends or going out. Can't bear the cr*p in the ubiquitous Starbucks, Costas and motorway stations. Thank heavens for Pain Quotidien in Covent Garden and Café Nero when I find one.
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)."
Well ....it used to be a fact many years ago that the Irish were the biggest drinkers of tea per capita in the world and the Swedish of coffee ......as an Irishman living in Russia I believe that Russians really drink more tea than the Irish.....but with tooooo much sugar!
Well ....it used to be a fact many years ago that the Irish were the biggest drinkers of tea per capita in the world and the Swedish of coffee ......as an Irishman living in Russia I believe that Russians really drink more tea than the Irish.....but with tooooo much sugar!
P.S. Barry island ,the rivers are so cold you would not even reach the bottom
Dear Dachalover: fascinated by your various posts within this thread - some of your comments really 'chimed' with me as an ex-patriate Englishman (Midlander) residing in far west SW wales for over 40 years & counting..[on another 40, if I'm spared?]. I do have an uncertain % of ex-Co Roscommon Irish blood in me somewhere...lower left leg, I think?? I've been a communicator/ interpreter all my professional life & carry on much the same in active retirement (3 years so far). Outdoors is where I've based these interpretations of the natural world: seashore, countryside, farmland, mountain & moor throughout the British Isles.
I short, I'd miss the (comparative) freedom of movement & expression which we can sometimes take for granted here in Britain. The easier-going Irish way of life I love: (sampled in wet west Kerry late 1970's as a geomorphology/ landform & geology student). **I could go on & on, but perhaps you'd like to pm me if you wish a more private dialogue??...Slaunte! Pob Hwyl!! Good luck!!
Just had words with my granddad, he was a wee lad living in Belfast during the 2ndWW, where everyone drank strong boiled tea, with milk and two sugars when you could get the stuff!
Now everyone drinks what he calls Shamrock tea three leaves,poison!
He still boils his tea, strong with milk, BUT no sugar, now he cannot stand the stuff in tea!
Funny when something is scarce everyone wants it, when it is plentiful the opposite!
And been able to criticize politicians of all parties even though they are voted in by us is marvellous , a bunch of con artists he says!
Thanks for your responses , when I first came to Russia in 1990 (still CCCR then) I was amazed at how wonderful the ice-cream was but the irony of it all was you could not get any real milk so I weaned myself of my drop of milk in my tea.....
Then the Soviet Union broke up and we got very nice milk from Finland so back to milky tea.....fast forward to 2015 and now all imported milk is sanctioned ......we live in a truly crazy world
Love it, Pansyface. My mother claimed to have invented smoked potatoes, and to thisday, I love potatoes slightly burnt on the outside, and hard in the middle. It is her birthday today, she would have been 90 if we still had her.
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What I miss when I go to England now is decent coffee whether staying with rellies or friends or going out. Can't bear the cr*p in the ubiquitous Starbucks, Costas and motorway stations. Thank heavens for Pain Quotidien in Covent Garden and Café Nero when I find one.
Well ....it used to be a fact many years ago that the Irish were the biggest drinkers of tea per capita in the world and the Swedish of coffee ......as an Irishman living in Russia I believe that Russians really drink more tea than the Irish.....but with tooooo much sugar!
Well ....it used to be a fact many years ago that the Irish were the biggest drinkers of tea per capita in the world and the Swedish of coffee ......as an Irishman living in Russia I believe that Russians really drink more tea than the Irish.....but with tooooo much sugar!
P.S. Barry island ,the rivers are so cold you would not even reach the bottom
Dear Dachalover: fascinated by your various posts within this thread - some of your comments really 'chimed' with me as an ex-patriate Englishman (Midlander) residing in far west SW wales for over 40 years & counting..[on another 40, if I'm spared?]. I do have an uncertain % of ex-Co Roscommon Irish blood in me somewhere...lower left leg, I think?? I've been a communicator/ interpreter all my professional life & carry on much the same in active retirement (3 years so far). Outdoors is where I've based these interpretations of the natural world: seashore, countryside, farmland, mountain & moor throughout the British Isles.
I short, I'd miss the (comparative) freedom of movement & expression which we can sometimes take for granted here in Britain. The easier-going Irish way of life I love: (sampled in wet west Kerry late 1970's as a geomorphology/ landform & geology student). **I could go on & on, but perhaps you'd like to pm me if you wish a more private dialogue??...Slaunte! Pob Hwyl!! Good luck!!
Hi Dacha,
Just had words with my granddad, he was a wee lad living in Belfast during the 2ndWW, where everyone drank strong boiled tea, with milk and two sugars when you could get the stuff!
Now everyone drinks what he calls Shamrock tea three leaves,poison!
He still boils his tea, strong with milk, BUT no sugar, now he cannot stand the stuff in tea!
Funny when something is scarce everyone wants it, when it is plentiful the opposite!
And been able to criticize politicians of all parties even though they are voted in by us is marvellous , a bunch of con artists he says!
Cheers!
jo47 , your house looks truly wonderful
David /Jimmmy
Thanks for your responses , when I first came to Russia in 1990 (still CCCR then) I was amazed at how wonderful the ice-cream was but the irony of it all was you could not get any real milk so I weaned myself of my drop of milk in my tea.....
Then the Soviet Union broke up and we got very nice milk from Finland so back to milky tea.....fast forward to 2015 and now all imported milk is sanctioned ......we live in a truly crazy world
pansyface
I know someone who used Carnation milk in their tea. Vile
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Love it, Pansyface. My mother claimed to have invented smoked potatoes, and to thisday, I love potatoes slightly burnt on the outside, and hard in the middle. It is her birthday today, she would have been 90 if we still had her.
Marmite - I could not live without marmite.
It's feeling pretty cold on the South Downs here Dachalover, I'm sure it will snow this year.