The President has been speaking again. Now it seems you can only go to a cafe or restaurant if you have a vaccine passport. This is presumably the app we have on our phones showing we've had 2 doses. I'm ok with this but how many cafe owners will obey the rules and check is a different matter. Vaccinations for care workers is now mandatory. Already the radio has interviews with folks saying this contravenes their human rights.
Our morning starts, as mornings usually start in PON households, with some drama. Sophie emerges into the garden to find not one but two C-A-T-S sunning themselves on the lawn. One C-A-T goes right, the other left. Sophie goes in a straight line between them. Five minutes later she returns looking pleased with herself. What she think she's accomplished is a mystery. We can say with certainty that the C-A-T-S have not been unduly alarmed.
Dog and master head down to the valley. The hotter it gets the earlier we rise in order to enjoy the cool air.
The village is not a busy place. School is over, the 'tikes' have been sent to their grandparents in St.Etienne, the farmers have been up since four bringing in the harvest and the eight am shift change at the old folks home is still more than an hour away . We have the place to ourselves.
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Sophie looks pretty happy this morning - she must have forgiven you for the trim. That taco menu is really kind of frightening. In Japan, restaurants seem to take a bifurcated approach to foreign cuisines. Some like to localize - squid pizza anyone? - and others are rigorously authentic - the Japanese guy who runs our local Mexican restaurant takes his entire staff to Mexico once a year (or did, pre-pandemic) and the local pizza guy studied in Napoli.
Bravo for Macron. I know a couple of people who got vaccinated because they wanted to be sure to be able to go to restaurants, otherwise they were going to wait until the vaccines were "proven safe." Although with 3.44 billion doses already administered around the world, I don't know what more proof they would have wanted. I went to a ballet last night, at a spectacular open-air theater, and had to first pass by a tent for a rapid Covid test in order to get a bracelet to enter. My first Covid test. Unpleasant. I am fully vaccinated, but it's not yet been two weeks. Unsurprising negative result.
Re French tacos, the New Yorker in April had an in-depth investigation: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/19/the-unlikely-rise-of-the-french-tacos
I once worked in a Mexican restaurant and have yet to encounter any "Mexican" food that meets my standards.
The village may be quiet, but one feels for the St Etienne grandparents...
My brother just returned from a visit to his second home near Aubusson. The only incident of note apparently was being flagged down by customs officials on the motorway south of Paris. Nothing Brexit or Covid related, it seems, the suspicion was that this car with foreign plates might be smuggling drugs. (Believe me, my brother and sister-in-law do not fit any profile of potential international drug smugglers!)
My thoughts too, sympathy for the St Etienne grandparents. Perhaps they cope by stocking up on Valium before the school holidays?
It's very possibly my age (well past the second flush of youth!) but I can't understand how a vaccination, to protect from a raging pandemic, can be considered a violation of human rights. Of course the very same people who complain would also raise merry hell if the vaccination were denied them. Is this actually to do with the vaccine or more to do with the Presidential insistence they have one before dining out?
Most restrictions are relaxed here, and surprise, surprise, the instances of new cases has rocketed. For the first time my local community (Valencia) has one of the highest numbers in the country. We've all been so proud of being in the lowest category, and wonder if holidaymakers are checking the hot spots and then choosing areas with a history of the lowest infections. It would account for the large numbers of tourists who have descended on us. This morning Inca and I took a walk along the promenade and just after 8 a.m. the beach was already half full.
I guess if you think of a taco as a form of pancake, you can put anything you like on it. As for the flax - are you sure that is not lucerne? xxx Mr T
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Ahhh. Mr T I think you have just answered the query in my head... flax has a much more open five-petalled flower and more slender leaves. I just couldn't quite pin down why I thought this wasn't it... Sorry Angus - unless we are completely misinterpreting your photo. Perhaps a more botanical 'take' so we can compare notes again?! YAM xx
These people that shout human rights conveniently ignore that with freedom comes responsibility. If you live in a society you also have responsibilities to the rest of the people in it. As for "localizing" foreign food I think America might be way ahead of the French in that regard.
Re French tacos, I was amused that every taco is topped with french fries and cheese sauce. That might be an unsavory addition to a merguez and honey selection....
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