Funny how year in year out 'Les vacances or En Congés" seem to manage to come
along at the worst possible moment.
If you need an electrician, an appliance breaks or visit a specialist you can almost
guarantee it coincides with a holiday break!
I think that in time we will head for the mountains or the coast just as the French do,
it would make life so much simpler then all the repairs could wait.
With all on holiday it seems strange there is no=one to talk to but the factures still arrive!
Saturday, 9 August 2008
Friday, 8 August 2008
Olympics
Worldwide tonight we will see history in the making.
The 2008 Olympic opening ceremony will dominate our TV screens, our radio and our newspapers.
The nationalities of the world unite in competition, to prove the best and entertain with the worst.
Remembering the successful Olympians names is often a challenge in it's self, yet why is it the
Winter Olympics of 1988 that possibly reminds us of Britains most 'famous' competitors.
Rather than the gold medal winners, we remember Eddie 'the eagle' Edwards who wobbled in last!
Do we watch for the successes or hope for the entertainment in failure?
The 2008 Olympic opening ceremony will dominate our TV screens, our radio and our newspapers.
The nationalities of the world unite in competition, to prove the best and entertain with the worst.
Remembering the successful Olympians names is often a challenge in it's self, yet why is it the
Winter Olympics of 1988 that possibly reminds us of Britains most 'famous' competitors.
Rather than the gold medal winners, we remember Eddie 'the eagle' Edwards who wobbled in last!
Do we watch for the successes or hope for the entertainment in failure?
Thursday, 7 August 2008
We're off to see the wizard...
..the wonderful wizard of Oz
Toto, we'res Toto???
Theres's no place like Home
Well I felt like I was in Kansas in the middle of a twister last night!
Windows blew open, crash bang wallop, no power and a whirlwind outside!
Raging storm, 'tis morning and garden stuff strewn everywhere
Let me get this right, South West France first week of August 2008? OK?
I'm sure that is a munchkin eating a bowl of cereal in my living room or is it the scarecrow?
Toto, we'res Toto???
Theres's no place like Home
Well I felt like I was in Kansas in the middle of a twister last night!
Windows blew open, crash bang wallop, no power and a whirlwind outside!
Raging storm, 'tis morning and garden stuff strewn everywhere
Let me get this right, South West France first week of August 2008? OK?
I'm sure that is a munchkin eating a bowl of cereal in my living room or is it the scarecrow?
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Wine
There is usually so little I can say about wine.
France has a somewhat superiority complex about their 'Old world' vintages.
Classic wines, classic grapes but what can be said.
I am guilty as the next person for smuggling a Chilean red out of a budget supermarket.
So when I am looking for a characteristic 'nose' of toffee, violet, cedarwood and currants I know straight away I have a Merlot
Cabernet Sauvignon blend, or do I look at the price? The label usually tells me little and I cannot sneakily open a bottle for a
shot and a sniff!
I have now narrowed down many years of living in France to officially know nothing about wine.
I do however know that some brands are in local supermarkets and may be cheaper than the 'cave' that represents them,
that however much the full bodied robust red 'nectar of the gods' may be, the true Old world wine, Rose remains my favourite
so long as they put the blend on the bottle.
And generally the producers don't!
Why?
Of the most famous appellations, St Emillion constitutes on of the most Famous Bordeaux wine regions, world renown in fact
yet how is it, that they are not obliged to put the grape varieties on the labels.
The average British supermarket, for example Tescos, on the other hand has so much on the label that they are close to
contravening laws on excess packaging by way of the label alone!
So now I have but a handful of the massive choice of wines to enjoy, all because over the past few years I hate buying blind
and now I have finally decided what I do like, life would be so much easier if I knew a bit more about the liquid delights in the
bottles.
So there it is, perhaps I have found the secret of the success of wine. 99% is bought clueless and is simply awful but once
opened there is no return or it's a secret gem bought for a pretty label. Now there is a thought!
France has a somewhat superiority complex about their 'Old world' vintages.
Classic wines, classic grapes but what can be said.
I am guilty as the next person for smuggling a Chilean red out of a budget supermarket.
So when I am looking for a characteristic 'nose' of toffee, violet, cedarwood and currants I know straight away I have a Merlot
Cabernet Sauvignon blend, or do I look at the price? The label usually tells me little and I cannot sneakily open a bottle for a
shot and a sniff!
I have now narrowed down many years of living in France to officially know nothing about wine.
I do however know that some brands are in local supermarkets and may be cheaper than the 'cave' that represents them,
that however much the full bodied robust red 'nectar of the gods' may be, the true Old world wine, Rose remains my favourite
so long as they put the blend on the bottle.
And generally the producers don't!
Why?
Of the most famous appellations, St Emillion constitutes on of the most Famous Bordeaux wine regions, world renown in fact
yet how is it, that they are not obliged to put the grape varieties on the labels.
The average British supermarket, for example Tescos, on the other hand has so much on the label that they are close to
contravening laws on excess packaging by way of the label alone!
So now I have but a handful of the massive choice of wines to enjoy, all because over the past few years I hate buying blind
and now I have finally decided what I do like, life would be so much easier if I knew a bit more about the liquid delights in the
bottles.
So there it is, perhaps I have found the secret of the success of wine. 99% is bought clueless and is simply awful but once
opened there is no return or it's a secret gem bought for a pretty label. Now there is a thought!
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Quotations
Yesterday I couldn't make up my mind between Eddie Cantor and Oliver Wendall Holmes
"Mans mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains it's original dimensions".
Having researched Eddie Cantor, he may be an astute vaudeville performer but I wonder how politically correct
(or not) he is. I think he would be banned now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285-qOZjt2g
"Mans mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains it's original dimensions".
Having researched Eddie Cantor, he may be an astute vaudeville performer but I wonder how politically correct
(or not) he is. I think he would be banned now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285-qOZjt2g
Monday, 4 August 2008
Eddie Cantor said...
" Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast -
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why"
I'm feeling that this is important
you also miss the sense of where you are going and why"
I'm feeling that this is important
Sunday, 3 August 2008
Back from my break
So here I am back in Eymet. This weekend what's on?
There are events in Eymet, Castillones, Issigeac, Bergerac.
How come everything is in one weekend and we want to go to all of them!
Oh! and by the way, every event but someone forgot to turn the sun back on
There are events in Eymet, Castillones, Issigeac, Bergerac.
How come everything is in one weekend and we want to go to all of them!
Oh! and by the way, every event but someone forgot to turn the sun back on
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