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I liked gripe water. Dinneford's, no longer available. I could quite take to it as a party drink. Currently available versions not nearly as pleasant.
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That's rubbish, LVER, you can certainly have my sympathy and I'm sure we can muster up some green tea too. I'm with you on that: its slight bitterness is just the thing when you're feeling ill.
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La Vie, sorry to hear you've been poorly - tummy bugs can be really horrid. Virtual tea and toast on their way. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Congratulations, Piglet and D.! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Are we allowed to ask the number of years being celebrated?
You are indeed - 29. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
We went out to a brunch buffet on Sunday after church, and if we're honest, it was a bit of a disappointment. We were rather late, but not so late that they didn't let us in, and I think they could have been a bit more gracious than they were. I went to the loo just after we'd arrived and when I got back the door of the restaurant (it was part of a hotel) was locked, and I had to make signs at departing guests that yes, I was going in and no, I wasn't all that late. Coupled with that, the staff started clearing plates and cutlery almost before we'd finished eating the course we were on, and started hoovering while we were still at our food. Not many points awarded there.
However, ...
This afternoon we took a wee jaunt down to St. Andrews (on the southern NB coast), and had a v. nice dinner in a restaurant there: shared cheese-and-charcuterie plate to start (with v. good bread), then Wiener Schnitzel for D. and excellent rack of lamb for me. Much better.
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I liked gripe water. Dinneford's, no longer available. I could quite take to it as a party drink. Currently available versions not nearly as pleasant.
The taste of gripe water is my earliest memory!
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I had my first baby in Belfast, and gripe water is what kept me, my husband, and the baby sane.
I had the second in the US, and gripe water was not available. Fortunately her colic was very mild.
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29 years. Dear God, you get less for murder....
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I write this from a B&B in central Virginia, where we have come to celebrate our 40th anniversary with a mini-vacation capped by a supernally expensive dinner.
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Dinneford's was not the original gripe water - that was made by Woodward's and is still available.
One of mine suffered from colic and we used Woodward's - it worked!
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Brenda (congratulations, BTW), do please regale us lesser mortals with a description (leaving no details undetailed) of your Dinner.
Meanwhile, I shall go and scrape the Green Bits off the Episcopal Cheese, saving them for later, if I need penicillin...
Now, where did I put that last crust of bread....?
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29 years. Dear God, you get less for murder....
I've heard people say "if you'd killed him, you'd be out by now". ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
BF's right, Brenda - details of outrageously expensive food are always appreciated.
Congratulations to you and Mr. BC!
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By the time you read this, the lemon CAKE I made this afternoon should be cooled and ready for virtual tasting - help yourselves.
It's ages since I made CAKE - this is the first one since we moved here nearly a year ago. I'm delighted to report that baking in the new château is far easier than it was in our old house, as there's loads of counter-space in the kitchen (and power-points in the right places). ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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It tastes virtually the same as Lemon Drizzle CAKE!
CAKE, ALE, and GIN, are all proof that God loves us.
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...as there's loads of counter-space in the kitchen (and power-points in the right places).
The in the right places is so important! Running extension leads in the kitchen is a huge pain! - been there, done that in previous places but here we designed the kitchen ourselves so if they are in the wrong place we know just who to blame!
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A little crisis just now with the twins having taken themselves off into a bedroom and then slid the bolt across at the bottom of the door. Whilst the men of the house and extended family were talking about how to break down the door with the least damage Herself got hold of a long steel tube and went round to the open window, called the kids to her so they were out of danger and unbolted the bolt, which has since been disabled.
I think sexist comments will be anathema in this house for a long time after that little episode.
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Something similar happened when eldest son was possibly 15 months old. He flipped a clip on the very old lock to the bathroom and was locked in. House was old for Sydnery, about 100 years then.
Fortunately there was a very large window over the wall and door into the hall. I too found a long piece of wood or metal, climbed ladder and leant through window It took a bit of manoeuvring, but I managed to push the lock open.
Lock was then fixed to allow door to open and close without actually locking.
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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
It tastes virtually the same as Lemon Drizzle CAKE!
CAKE, ALE, and GIN, are all proof that God loves us.
Nah, if God loved us she'd have made CAKE, ALE, and GIN health foods!
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We went to the Inn at Little Washington, which is in rural Virginia a couple hours south of Washington DC. The town is named thus because George Washington, in his earlier gig as a surveyor, laid out the place. Most of the other locales of the name, like the nation's capital or the Pacific Northwest state, are named in honor of Washington even though he had little part in organizing the place.
Here is the menu! My husband ordered the first sampler and I the second, so by sharing we got a good all-around tasting.
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Wow, Brenda - seriously tasty (and pricey!) stuff....mmmmmm........
Boogie, CAKE, ALE, and GIN are all health foods/drinks. This is proved by the fact that one feels better after consuming them...
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I wonder whether a lot of people in rural Virginia get to their 40th wedding anniversary. For any less of an occasion, that is seriously dear, I've never spent more than a quarter of that on a meal. Were there lots of people there ?
Of course I have heard of very expensive places over here too, but I've never been to one to see how busy they are or what kind of people go.
Cakes and ale I agree with but gin as Michael Flanders said is a drink I can well do without. Just a way of spoiling the taste of tonic water as far as I can see.
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Congratulations Brenda Clough - that menu sounds lovely. We (husband, son and I) have taken to going out to expensive restuarants to celebrate our birthdays. We went to a Michelin starred Indian one for mine in May. I'd never had a tasting menu before, but it was great. I really enjoyed having different wines through-out the evening and trying to identify what was in the various interesting plates that kept on appearing.
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Brenda Clough
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It books up solid six or eight months out. We went with two other couples and began setting up the event a year ago.
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Forgot to add, we have never spent so much on a meal before and are unlikely to ever again.
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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
I wonder whether a lot of people in rural Virginia get to their 40th wedding anniversary..
Of course they do.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
... if God loved us she'd have made CAKE, ALE, and GIN health foods!
But they are!
Lemons are a fruit (so one of your five-a-day)
ALE contains healthy things like barley and hops
GIN is made from juniper berries, which grow on a bush, so another of your five-a-day.
Not to mention the slice of lemon in the GIN...
Brenda, that menu looks utterly divine, but eye-wateringly expensive! Glad you and Mr. C. enjoyed it.
D. and I had planned to go back to Sam Snead's tonight for their (extremely good-value) steak night, but I took a bit of a gyppy tummy today (mercifully not something I suffer from very often), so we decided not to risk it. There's always next Wednesday.
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Wow, that looks like a fabulous place altogether, Brenda.
Congratulations on your anniversary!
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Welease Woderwick
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Yes, looks great but my bank manager might react rather differently!
A friend's son runs his own place in Brighton [UK] and for his birthday chooses a different place each year to go and spy on the competition and his parents, crazy people, pay!
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Bishops Finger
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CHOCOLATE is also a Health Food, and a gift from God, on account of being made from Beans, which are Vegetables, and therefore legitimately classed as one of your Five-A-Day.
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Well, they do admit that beans (and pulses) are good, but that they only count as 1 of the 5, however many you eat. I guess that means topping up CHOCOLATE throughout the day with CAKE, ALE, and GIN, in order to achieve the 5.
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CHOCOLATE is also a Health Food, and a gift from God, on account of being made from Beans, which are Vegetables, and therefore legitimately classed as one of your Five-A-Day.
By this standard coffee also qualifies.
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Coffee (or at least good coffee) is ambrosial. Of course it's healthy.
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As D. has just brought me a Timmy's™, I'll heartily agree with that.
And it was free, as they're doing a special Roll Up the Rim for Canada's 150th anniversary, and I gagnezed un cafe.
It's been very warm here today - currently (at about 8:30 p.m.) 25°, so I've had a fairly lazy day apart from filling up the birdie feeder and doing a spot of ironing.
D. has been buying different sorts of bird-seed, which seem to last longer than the original stuff we bought - maybe it's so warm that the birds can't be bothered to eat!
We seem to be getting a wider variety of little feathered friends at the birdie bistro - grackles, cowbirds, sparrows and mourning doves (which I've decided should be called hoover birds, as they seem content to eat up the seeds that fall on to the deck, because they're too big to perch on the feeder).
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I have a seed tray (with attached roof) stuck onto my office window with plastic suction cups. It is 2 stories above the ground, and I get tufted titmice, chickadees, various woodpeckers, blue jays, cardinals and bluebirds. There is a difference between winter and summer customers. I get one demanding chickadee, who complains and even bangs on the glass if the seed runs out, and I have named him the Angry Chickadee. The bluebird is of course the Bluebird of Happiness.
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A friend, K, had the day off so we took a trip to Cartwright Hall, basically Bradford Art Gallery. A new David Hockney exhibit for the artists' 80th birthday started today. There was also a whole gallery given over to the work of local children of all ages.
I know there's not much use for food talk on this thread, but I have to tell you we followed the trip with smoked salmon, and lingonbery cheesecake at the nearby Ikea.
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Very healthy, though - Fish and Fruit!
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
The bluebird is of course the Bluebird of Happiness.
So not this famous little guy then?
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Is he the avian equivalent of the Grumpy Cat?
Actually that's unfair to the wee bird - I think he's rather cute.
D. kicked off this summer's Music at the Cathedral concert series today; for the last 20 years or so there have been Friday lunch-time concerts given by assorted local musicians during July and August. The series was well underway when we arrived here last July, and D. decided that he'd start a regular organ recital on Fridays (which started in Advent and have kept going), so it seemed logical for him to do the opening concert of the season.
It was well-attended: as well as our "regulars" there was a goodly crowd who have presumably been regulars of the summer series over the years. It was mostly quite light-hearted (he billed it as "Music for an Estival Festival") - he opened with The Liberty Bell (complete with solo piglet on handbell ) and ended with the Fantasia on British Sea Songs by Henry Wood, as played at the Last Night of the Proms. The audience joined in with enthusiastic foot-stamping during the Sailor's Hornpipe, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.
There are all sorts of things lined up for the rest of the series - singers, guitarists, bassoonists, pianists, you name it - so it should be quite an interesting summer.
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
The bluebird is of course the Bluebird of Happiness.
So not this famous little guy then?
Same breed, but because I feed them they are less surly.
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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
Very healthy, though - Fish and Fruit!
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Precisely. Also the dill in the sauce is a green leaf, which I've been led to believe are healthy...
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He opened with The Liberty Bell (complete with solo piglet on handbell ) and ended with the Fantasia on British Sea Songs
But no big squidgy foot as per Monty Python? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Sounds as if you had an excellent evening.
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Kerala Tourism has upgraded us on their three point scale from Silver to GOLD!!
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes. etc.
This is very nice of them but I'm not 100% certain we deserve it plus, of course, it means we have to pay more for our annual registration!
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Last night I sent off email invitations to friends in Foreign Psrts to the Big Party a week tomorrow for the twins 1st birthday so lots of very nice refusals in my inbox this morning - we would be im a right pickle if they had all decided to accept!
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First birthday party!! Happy birthday to them, but goodness that seems to have gone quickly.
Well done on the gold accreditation. Even if they charge you more for it.
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Happy birthday twins!
We are sixty in two weeks (my husband and I) and, since we can't abide surprises, we have organised a Big Birthday Bash with function room, food, cakes, bar and balloons! My husband's covers band is playing.
100 guests are coming and our house will be full of 6 German visitors for the weekend (friends we've made on our many trips to Heidelberg )
I'm looking forward to it - I think!
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
The bluebird is of course the Bluebird of Happiness.
So not this famous little guy then?
The photographer who took that owns the copyright, and he has made a mint. He has mixed feelings about this; he is a very serious bird photographer and works hard to photograph various species engaged in their normal behavior.
He noticed the mad bluebird and snapped it on impulse. Now he has made far more money from this than from what he considers his best work.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
He opened with The Liberty Bell (complete with solo piglet on handbell ) and ended with the Fantasia on British Sea Songs
But no big squidgy foot as per Monty Python?
No. That would have been Silly.
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Kerala Tourism has upgraded us on their three point scale from Silver to GOLD!!
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes. etc.
This is very nice of them but I'm not 100% certain we deserve it ...
I'm sure you do - congratulations!
Thanks for the earworm!
Another hot day here (27° at the moment). D. decided he couldn't really put off cutting the grass chez Piglet any longer, but did it in two stages*; while he was doing the first stage I cooked lunch, and cleared up afterwards while he was doing the second.
He's discovered that part of the lawn isn't just grass, but tiny little wild strawberries. At the moment they're only about the size of a coffee-bean (and rather cute), but v. sweet.
* It has to be done like that anyway, as the mower's battery life is just too short to do the whole thing in one go. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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O what a shame - part of the lawn is actually a Wild Fruit Garden, and therefore should not be mown over...
Still, comfort yourselves with the thought that the wild strawberries count towards your 5 a day.
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There's a thought - if he left the wild strawberry "patch", would the battery life be long enough?
Sadly, I suspect that the estate-management people might have something to say if the whole lawn wasn't cut.
Another v. warm day - according to Environment Canada it's currently 24° although I reckon it's hotter than that, and it was very hot and sticky in church this morning.
The Diocese here runs a Choir School at a boarding-school out of town in the first week of July, and they're singing Choral Evensong at the Cathedral this afternoon. I was planning to go (D. and I haven't been involved, but he's playing the prelude and postlude at the service, and feels he ought to be there to Show Willing) but I really don't relish the thought of sitting in that heat again.
The lure of the air-conditioning chez Piglet is just too strong ...
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27 degrees C here! Humid and sticky - not Nice at all, with Thunderystrums forecast for tomorrow, so painting of the rest of the Episcopal Palace is not likely to proceed.
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A trip to the supermarket this afternoon very much done en famille - the blessing is that it is about 15 minutes car ride away which is just long enough for the kids to fall asleep and then be carried, still sleeping, around the store on a parental shoulder whilst I, almost as blind as the blindest of proverbial bats, push the trolley up and down the aisles.
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With someone else putting things (e.g. fresh mango, and ice cream) in the trolley meanwhile, I hope!
My daily shopping trip this morning resulted in the purchase of bread, cheese, potato/carrot/swede mash, a bottle of single malt WHISKY (Aberlour, one of the fruity Speysides, for them wot knos), and two bottles of nice traditional CIDER, as immortalised by the late, great, Adge Cutler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7onOJ-QgXY0
Cheers!
(Mind you, I'm sure that, back in the days when I went a-folk singing, it was the milk maids that got rolled over in the clover, not the churns. That would be Silly.)
IJ
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Oh, and remembering Adge Cutler reminded me of this song, in Bristolian, rather than English!
Thee's Got'n Where Thee Cassn't Back'n, Hassn't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnKjwOLiBTg
Ah, happy days....
(And this must be the only song ever written about the problems of car parking in Bristol and Paris).
BTW, did you hear the story about the lass who walked into a pub, and asked for a Double Entendre ? The barman gave her one.
I'll get me coat...
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Our thunderstorm was apocalyptic ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) The most rainfall ever recorded in the space of an hour. The roads and pavements were like a swimming pool. Apparently at one point the fire brigade were so overwhelmed that they asked people to stop calling for anything except emergencies.
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