A storm stirs in the mountains. At two in the morning it comes charging off the peaks and slams into The Rickety Old Farmhouse with all the finesse of a railroad car. Shutters bang, trees sway, the security lights come on. From the edge of the village I hear Max, the French teachers Golden Retriever, bark. Ten seconds later Bob joins in with a full throated 'bad weather ' alert. Sophie sleeps on. It takes more than a gale to interrupt her sleep .
The Christmas decorations go up on the Market Square. The beer and absinthe crowd watch the council workmen in silence. Bob and Sophie are 'dissuaded' from helping. At the pasta stall the young woman has made artichoke croquettes. '' Make sure the ovens heated to a hundred and eighty and bake them for ten minutes exactly ".
Bob and Sophie get a little Parmegiano. Their tails wag. Not a bad start to a Saturday in deepest, deepest France profonde.
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Parmegiano....the Perfect start to the day!
Wish I got cheese to start Saturday.
Sounds a pretty good start to us. Rain, rain and more rain here in Aberdeen...
Looks like a good start from here.
I think our grey damp starts have moved up to Bertie as it's much brighter here as well.
I prefer the look of the Arancini - I would definitely be buying those! They sound delicious! Hey-ho. Shepherd's pie for us.
That would not be a bad start in a small town in western Loudoun County, Virginia either!
I hope you're having an enjoyable day!
The Arancini sound very good. That next-to-last picture has me laughing: Bob looks as if he's leaning casually on the bar. "So, do you come here often?"
So, christening of decorations isn't considered helping? The nerve!
Sounds like a great day after a stormy night....why should Sophie wake up during the storm when she knows brother Bob has got everything covered? She is a force to be reckoned with and I love her.
Such a gorgeous blue sky.
My apologies to you Angus, I'm feeling a bit chatty this morning. But I wanted to tell you that my friends who were robbed in Italy of their computers with all their photos from their years travel, through a series of events, were able to get one of the hard drives returned to them intact with all their photos!! A pharmacist about 5 hours from Fnideq Morocco (of all places) was asked by someone who had bought it, to try and unlock it, which he was able to to. The Pharmacist saw the message they'd put onto it about the photos, contacted our friends, and a very, very long story short, returned the hard drive to them undamaged. He asked for no money to return the photos, only for a new hard drive for the computer, to give to the computer's "new owner" and reimbursement for postage. How fortunate and lucky is that? Our friends of course are humbled and so, so grateful to the Pharmacist.
That is as close to a miracle as you can get !
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