There are pheasants on the lawn. The PONs rush out of the door to give chase. The pheasants go right. The PONs go left. Angus wonders why so many guides say Polish Lowland Sheepdogs are intelligent. In their defence it must be said that Bob and Sophie know the word for breakfast in 84 languages and , in Sophie's case, an equal number of obscure dialects.
It pours with rain. The ground is saturated. The PONs traipse through the house leaving a trail of water, mud and twigs behind them. PONs are not dogs for the sorts of well ordered families you see on television commercials.
We have a large collection of brown water absorbing rugs. One of these is positioned in front of my desk so that Sophie can be near me and drip quietly.
At the bakers a large round mille feuille. For some reason it is decorated with a small bunch of grapes. This is an unusual touch. The bakers wife, who continues to swell, has decorated the lemon meringue pie with half a lemon cut into a creative shape. This is the pre-natal creativity phase.
Bob and Sophie stop and listen as Angus reads out the ingredients in the '' Hamburger of the month " at the local fast food outlet. Passing locals do their very best to ignore this foreigner talking to two shaggy dogs. Chicken breast, prawns, avocado and mango slices, passion fruit sauce and Cheddar cream dressing. Bob and Sophie are spellbound, Angus is less enthused.
This would seem sensible in big polluted cities : https://www.fastcompany.com/90301195/i-rode-the-300-pound-electric-tricycle-that-could-be-the-future-of-urban-deliveries
8 comments:
Hari OM
...so they stuck two individual burgers into one to save time, right?..
No dripping quietly around the Hutch, let me tell you - Storm Erik is stomping and doing a good a good impression of pouring. It is the sort of weather that would severely hamper the progress of RadBurros!
YAM xx
How do you cut a round mille-feuille? A friend here, who knows all things gourmand, explained that the best way to dive into a mille-feuille is to turn it on its side, so that you can get through the biscuit layers without squishing out the pastry cream filling. I can just imagine trying to cut that pretty round version, and all the insides ooze out.
I love the electric trike! Our nearest town, Carcassonne, is just starting to warm up to bicycles. You would think they would be crazy about bikes, but no, it's like being in flyover USA--cars, cars, cars. Now, it's starting to change, with some new bike lanes going in. We certainly have the weather for bikes most of the year. You would think car drivers would be for more bikes, too--every bike is somebody not on the road with them or fighting for a parking place.
I was just pondering the same issue of slicing the mille-feuille, remembering the advice, previously seen on this blog, to place the slice on its side before cutting.
But Bertie too is thrilled by the '"Hamburger of the month", being less particular than his owner in the matter of weird food combinations.
Cheers! Gail
The burger fillings make me nauseous. A round Mille feuille - yes please. The Pons need a pat from me.
From what I'm told the Gourock ferry schedule has suffered.
First, I wonder how many of those "special burgers" they sell. Second, I have always wondered how the French eat Mille feuille - perhaps I should have followed a few buyers home to peak through the windows and see.
Is that the same room that you showed recently and said the ladies of the cooperative were papering? If it's completed (she said hopefully, bearing in mind the fraught history of the ladies' cooperative and their host), it looks like a very pleasant space for work, wet dogs and all.
The electric trike seems like a very good thing for an overheating planet. There are also electric bikes available just for people, although not cheap. Found this review of the Rad power trike from people who seem reasonably happy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jKznFJ1two
Hari OM
well, that depends... if you are referring to Argyll Ferries (from train terminal to Dunoon Pier - foot traffic only), then it can suffer reduced or cancelled services. The car ferry run by Western Ferries, though, is reliable beyond the sensible at times. Having once been on it in similar conditions, I resolved to use the A83 if such a storm was rampant and the need to travel arose! I have known it to be cancelled due to weather only twice in my five years here! (Unlike CalMac ferries around the coast, which draw up their ramps if the water waves at more than three inches, it seems... we in Dunoon are very lucky to have our privately run ferries.) YAM xx
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