Angus has carefully read and re-read the brochure for the local supermarkets wine fare. A twice a year chance to pick up rare bottles at heavily discounted prices. The bargains exist but they require careful studying to separate the wheat from the chaff. A variety of wine guides have been consulted. On arrival at the supermarket the PONs master is horrified to be told by the young manager that the displays aren't yet ready and that he'll have to wait until the evening before buying anything. What's the betting the vintages we want will have gone ?
At the service station on the motorway Angus has a lacklustre croissant and an even more lacklustre cup of something brown and burnt that claims to be coffee. There is a long queue so he has ample time to observe the products in the display cabinets by the cash register.
The plastic Eiffel Towers with diamante effect seem to be selling. Parisian snow-globes are a new addition to the range. So are a collection of knives. The ones with the orange skulls on the handle are slightly alarming. What demographic would buy a hunting knife in a motorway service station ?
The thimbles with scenes of Paris on them seem to be moving off the shelves slowly. In fact they don't seem to be moving off the shelves at all. How long will they linger there before being replaced by something that someone might actually want to buy ? Will they ever be dusted ? Why, when we're five hundred miles from Paris, are they selling Parisian mementos ? If you had to choose something what would it be ? Such are the random thoughts that keep the neural nerve endings busy while waiting in line on a Tuesday morning in deepest, deepest France profonde. Angus also wonders how long it will be before the name Nick Ayers is universally known.
This is about making a jello knife. It may mean something to the Japanese but leaves me bewildered : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ
What a calming interview :
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/thea-musgrave-composer-on-music-and-life/
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Yes, well, that is somehow very Japanese, but there's obviously an audience as this clip seems to have had 12 milion (!) views. I realized there is actually a whole series of these videos sponsored by the Kiwami knife company - knives made out of potatoes, rice, underwear, cardboard, ice and so on - who knew?https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ
I bought a little slightly tacky Eiffel Tower as a gag gift for a friend last winter. Now I wish I'd seen something like those snow globes -- wow, really tacky.
Hope you're able to get some of the good wines.
Yes, 12 million views. The word 'Why ? ' springs to mind.
Look carefully and you'll see a snow globe mounted on a faux marble base and next to a faux boulder with a windmill and Montmartre on it. There must be a factory in Chengdu churning out these things.
If we came to your place, we would definitely choose wine and eclairs as our souvenirs and maybe the least ugly of the Paris mugs.
I tried to stop watching that jelly knife video but was somehow mesmerized. Clips of Omarosa naming Nick Ayers were certainly shown frequently enough on cable news here.
Keeping an eye on Florence as she heads toward South Carolina. Hopefully Charleston (and the Husk) will be spared.
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