The less said about the family divas look this morning the better. We'll put it down to the cold and damp.
Angus doesn't unlock the church door today. The wind is gusting, strongly, from a direction that will blow all the dead leaves from the village green into the porch. This executive decision is based on an unwillingness to extend his church opening duties into sweeping and leaf removal. Next thing you know I'll be up a ladder repairing the wonky roof tiles. Maybe I'll wander over and open the church if the weather improves and the sun comes out. The chances of anyone visiting the village for some fresco viewing on a day like this can safely be assumed to be zero.
Having recently widened the exit from the roundabout the council workmen are now narrowing it again. The palm trees that were planted in the central meridian have disappeared. Will they reappear ? French municipalities seem to be driven by a desire to be constantly doing something.
This mornings croissant looks the part but is a reminder that looks can deceive. Stale and lumpen. A disappointing 6.8/10. None of the usual bakery staff are working. Perhaps they've been taken over ? More probably they've all gone off skiing. Sophie thinks the croissant is a 12/10. Her tail goes whack,whack,whack against the tables aluminium legs.
Down by the river she spots a floating log. This is stared at. Our progress slows.
Further progress is impeded by the appearance of two swans.
Last night as part of our 'virtual' dining experience we visited Edinburgh. I rather like the name of this restaurant :https://www.angelswithbagpipes.co.uk/a-la-carte
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We had a reservation at that restaurant the last time we were in Edinburgh but had to cancel for reasons I can't remember. Travel seems farther away again this week, but I hope to get there someday. Municipalities in Tokyo have the same tendency towards doing something at all times. Most recently, they dug up and repaved our local shopping street and its sidewalks with blocks in a most bizarre color scheme.
Was Angus warned that the role of guardian of the church key would involve high level executive decisions balancing factors such as: current weather, wind direction and quantity of leaf litter nearby, estimating likely number of visitors (and maybe an awareness of timing of local religious and other festivals), relationship management with village authorities in the event of perceived wrong desicions, the list goes on...)
In C-19 times I'd love to know more about your and the Font's virtual dining. Do you sit together, with appropiate drinks in hand exploring menus on the web deciding what you would both order, or you take turns trying to replicate (at the ROFH) the most interesting items you see on menus for far away places while Sophie gets to sample whatever lands on your kitchen floor?
We decide where in the world we want to dine. A restaurant is chosen and a menu printed out. A bottle of wine is opened, The Font starts cooking, Angus reads out the menu ( and the ingredients ) and we make a mental note of what's interesting. Many restaurants have gone over to 'tasting menus' that seem to us to be borderline inedible and at eye watering prices. Earlier in the week we came across a Brooklyn restaurant offering $325 menus add on 20% and the now mandatory 6% health insurance and wellness surcharge.
Love you both have found a way to travel the world from your home in France! Hope, even if not posted on this blog, you take photos of your most memorable meals (from menus you have discovered), your wine choice and perhaps just for you, unpublished photos of you both so you have a wonderful record of these strange times to look back on in future years.
Five minutes watching the swans, sounds peaceful, our moment of Sophie zen
Hari OM
Fraser Smith, head chef at AwB was the first one eliminated from Great British Menu Scottish Region this week, getting marks of only five and six. Two chefs are getting 9s and 10s.. and one of those is another Edinburgh chap - Stuart Ralston.
Interesting you mention about tasting menus in your comment above; my young cousin Andrew Wandless (who is now back in OZ and has gained his own Michelin Star) used to assist in production of tasting menus at Texture and when his mum squealed at the prices he said very clearly 'you are not paying for the food, but the experience and talent!' YAM xx
Angus, will you shortly be asked to keep a close tally on the numbers of visitors to see the murals? That seems to have inadvertently been left off the list of your original duties!
Lovely morning for Inca and I - hence the reason we're late posting. We met up with a friend from the UK, who had to rush home ahead of Spain's lockdown two years ago! We've kept in touch of course, but agreed it's not the same as meeting face to face.
Not to worry, Sophie - your natural beauty shines through those less than perfect hair days.
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