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Post by bjd on Apr 17, 2024 8:47:20 GMT
That's the ship I'm booked to sail on for a few days in June. They will drop off the flame in Marseille before that.
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 19:03:52 GMT
Trinidad Island in the Caribbean sea, often grouped with Tobago
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 19:02:45 GMT
Dorothy Parker American writer known for her witty remarks
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 18:58:46 GMT
So that's your new house, Casi? How nice. What is the meaning of the colours of the flag on the veranda?
Now can we finally see your garden?
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Eggs
Apr 16, 2024 18:55:40 GMT
Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 18:55:40 GMT
My son-in-law adds some Dijon-style (ie French) mustard to the egg mixture when he makes an omelette. It just enlivens the taste a bit.
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Post by bjd on Apr 16, 2024 6:14:00 GMT
Amazing stuff. I realize that nobody rolls their r's any longer.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2024 19:50:57 GMT
My ceanothus bloomed for the first time this year but it's nowhere the size of Patrick's. Yes, I can finally see it. I don't think it will ever get that size.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2024 19:47:04 GMT
I believe you are right, Lugg. It's a mahonia.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2024 10:55:26 GMT
Looks good, Mark.
Vollkorn means whole wheat in German. I imagine corn is the old Saxon word for wheat. It posed problems for me in high school when we had to learn about the British corn laws of the 19th century (1830s?). Didn't realize for years that they meant wheat.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2024 7:35:56 GMT
I don't buy cookbooks any longer, just google recipes for whatever ingredients I have when I'm out of ideas.
But looking at the cover of that book on British cooking, I'm surprised to see a soft-boiled egg being given cover space as a great example of British food. Or is it the two pieces of toast that are typically British?
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 19:19:35 GMT
I had a problem with an amalgammed tooth recently as well. The material of the tooth and that of the amalgam don't have the same density so the tooth ended up cracking after many yaers, bacteria went inside the crack and it got infected. The dentist cleaned it all out and patched it all up with whatever now replaces amalgams.
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 19:16:01 GMT
I couldn't see it either. But I have a ceanothus in my garden.
Kimby, those look like ordinary violets but I don't see a pink one.
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 19:12:33 GMT
It looks like a great place for a walk with kids!
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 7:13:27 GMT
Daniel Craig British actor who played James Bond in a series of the films. Much less attractive than Sean Connery.
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 7:10:32 GMT
Porto Torres Town in Sardinia where ships from Genoa arrive. There is a wonderful archeological museum there.
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Post by bjd on Apr 14, 2024 7:07:24 GMT
It was sunny and 28° here yesterday too. This morning it's foggy and 15° at 9 am. Supposed to cool down this week.
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Post by bjd on Apr 13, 2024 10:12:26 GMT
Mick, redbuds are cercis canadensis. Mine, Red Force, should eventually be like this They bloom before they get leaves, which here are dark reddish. Photinias here are usually hedge plants.
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Post by bjd on Apr 13, 2024 8:10:01 GMT
I'm waiting for that sweet spot between the time the heavy dew on the grass dries and the temperature gets too hot (28° this afternoon) to mow the grass. It's really long with various weeds clumping in places and I need to trim the edges.
And my redbud is finally showing tiny leaves about to sprout. I think it was perhaps just too young to flower and since the leaves come out after the blooms, it's just beginning to leaf out. It's only mid-April after all.
We had a lot of strong wind and heavy downpours at the beginning of the week and most of the petals were knocked off my tulips.
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Post by bjd on Apr 11, 2024 6:57:55 GMT
Sun and clear sky this morning, so only 7°. It should get to about 20° later and warmer on the weekend, before temps drop again next week. Very weird.
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Post by bjd on Apr 11, 2024 6:56:34 GMT
Chèvre is a goat, also a generic goat cheese. If you are buying one you ask for a specific name.
However, chevreuil is a deer or venison. So we are back to biche and barbiche.
Epaulets??
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Post by bjd on Apr 10, 2024 10:53:03 GMT
Whatagain, it was 1864, while the civil war was still on. Obviously those old lawmakers had nothing better to do. But since Arizona was not even a state at the time, just a territory, those laws are probably not valid.
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Post by bjd on Apr 10, 2024 7:08:13 GMT
Your harbour pictures make me almost smell the sea.
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Post by bjd on Apr 9, 2024 9:16:37 GMT
This morning I went to the post office to send a rolled-up painting in a tube to our son in Canada. The post office's policy of replacing humans with machines has a few drawbacks. It took me about half an hour, even though I know how to use a computer or smartphone. I believe the problem is that I just don't think in terms of yes/no and if a box doesn't need to be filled out in my opinion, I don't. There was no financial value but I still had to type in 1€ or the machine kept refusing to accept it. I had to get 4 customs forms. Much frustration later, it cost me 41€ to send the thing, given that the tube weighed much more than the painting, one that our son had done when he was about 16. And I still have to return to pick up my receipt -- the clerk couldn't scan the address barcode with her smartphone because the tube is round! She said she would do it later. The long lineup waiting to be helped probably influenced her.
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Post by bjd on Apr 9, 2024 6:39:02 GMT
The weekend's high 20s disappeared with massive downpours yesterday evening and during the night. This morning it was 9°.
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Post by bjd on Apr 9, 2024 6:37:20 GMT
I bought a daphne this year and it had one tiny flower on it. Heaven knows how long it will take to be big enough to cut some branches off.
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Post by bjd on Apr 9, 2024 6:33:09 GMT
It does look like a nice place for a holiday and your rental cottage is lovely.
Like Bixa, I am wondering what that green thing sticking out of the building is. Some way of loading high boats?
Obviously I didn't live in Manchester long enough -- I wouldn't put gravy on anything.
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Post by bjd on Apr 8, 2024 18:01:09 GMT
White asparagus has a thick skin on it. If you don't peel it, it gets stringy and hard to eat when you cook it.
re: breaking the ends. The ones I bought today were quite thick at the bottom (I would have preferred thinner ones) so snapping off the ends was not an option.
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Post by bjd on Apr 8, 2024 17:58:27 GMT
It's just too easy to think up nasty comments about these people. Shooting sitting ducks.
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Post by bjd on Apr 8, 2024 9:52:28 GMT
Asparagus season is just starting here in France too although I have never seen a peeling machine. Asparagus is one of the few crops that grow well around this area but unfortunately, they are mostly white. I prefer the green ones which you don't need to peel and taste a bit stronger.
Just bought some at the (outdoor) market this morning actually. I don't peel them, just cut the thicker stems off at the bottom.
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Post by bjd on Apr 7, 2024 17:54:19 GMT
Kerman Very old Iranian city known for its carpets
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