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trawling through some photos yesterday amd came across this from our last Britanny trip. In Britanny they make ( apart from crépes) whant they call "Kouign" ( pronounced "Queen") which are pancakes more like blinis and can be savoury or sweet. This restaurant extrapolated this and produces a "Burger Kouine" ( burger King, get it?) which has "Kouine" instead of a bread bun. Bloody lovely! uuuurrrpsss !

"froler la mort n'est rien, passer a coté de la vie est autrement plus grave" french biker proverb. "dicing with death is nothing, missing out on living is far more serious"

Ah, "Bodgit and Scarper" I remember years ago replacing a through hull fitting on a boat in the water and when the company director asked how it went, my oppo replied point at himself and I, " Bodgit and Scarper" boatfitters to the gentry! I nearly wet myself, never having heard the phrase before... still makes me giggle now.

I wonder how many times I've used that bike park in my misspent youth? My CM125 used to know the road from watton to Norwich on it's own I reckon. The Forum wsn't there in those days though. @Slowlycatchymonkey I was member of the the Norfolk Mountain Rescue team for a short while...

I want to know why Phil's GS is disguised as a honda... red white and blue striping, gold anodised rims... ?

to be fair though, that's not just women...

I'll send you mine, please PM address...?

oh yes they can! insofar as any one individual is concerned ( you in this case) you do what you feel right with and don't go with a trend just because "they can't all be wrong". Unfortunately for me, the adv shape bike is what suits me best physically, always has been so I just have to put up with people assuming I'm just another ADV trend follower... Fuck'em, who cares what the others think ride what suits you.

great photo, is that a nuthatch?

only cos they always ease lockdown too soon and everybody goes apeshit and sets it all off again! there was an interesting quote doing the rounds a while back, something along the lines of " your grandfaters generation suffered the depredation of world war and endured the hardships of being drafted, forced separations, kill or be killed, the horrer of the trenches and all that war entailed, followed by years of rationing and hardship to rebuild their country. You are being asked to stay home on the sofa infront of the telly with your loved ones AND YOU CAN'T EVEN FUCKING MANAGE THAT! It boils my piss. there I said it.

nononononononno.... Biscuit comes from the French "bis" meaning "2nd" or " again" and "Cuit" meaning "cooked" so by definition a "biscuit" is cooked twice. Legally ( and not a lot of people know this... ) the difference between a biscuit and a cake or pudding ( to be fair, this is english law) is that a biscuit is hard, and goes soft when stale and a cake or pudding is soft and goes hard when stale. ? now you can't say you never learn anything useful on here!

well I've driven 6 hrs and 600km to spend an our and a half with broher in law today, as we're being locked down again from monday. limited to 10km of the house ( except for work, which has to have written justification) but I'm furloughed again till 26th anyway so that's that. schools closed as well for 4 weeks so animals kids are at home too. this is now valid for the whole of france.

looks yummy, but erm... those are not biscuits buy the way. ?

Nope, alomst ALL food products in france go via the Rungis market, there are miriad stupid situations whereby fish from Marseille ( for example) is caught, sold off the boat, travels to Rungis, is sold there to a wholesaler, and then taken back to Marseille to be sold as "fresh" on the markets and in the restaurants there... some story all along the coast, the restaurants only by from their wholsaler who only buys in bulk from Rungis... stupid, stupid, stupid... Having discovered this I no longer eat "fresh" fish unlessI can buy it from the boat, which is what we do when we holiday in Britanny. It's also why I never, ever eat shellfish in a restaurant here.

Auxerre is 300 odd km from the nearest coast Pedro, that means that any fish is offloaded and sold on the dock, then it goes to the market in Rungis (paris), then it goes to the wholesalers, then it goes to the fishmonger... that means a minimum of 36 hrs in a truck.... + the time on a market stall hat is not fresh! I lived too long on the cosat to eat 48h old "fresh" fish.

Thanks, history is kinda my thing but can get boring very quickly for those not interested so i try and keep it to a minimum ?

or not?

this afternoon, the hedgerows are blooming

to Beaune to stock up on tins of tuna,mackerel, sardines, fish soup, and various other delicacies from "La Belle Iloise" https://www.labelleiloise.fr/en/information/the-cannery-1 As I am to be in lockdown with the animals children I will need to feed them I suppose and tins of fish with rice, or pasta, or spuds, is about the limit of my culinary skills. Besides, I like fish but live too far from the sea for anything to be truly fresh by the time it gets here... I'd planned to ride anyway today so adapted my ride to swing by Beaune and pick up a haul of canned fish. fuel first Have you read "Clochmerle"? this made me think of it. A monument to the local dead of the first war when the french troops still wore bright blue uniforms. Rare to see one still coloured "Blessed be the cheesemakers" Epoisses has a well preserved chateau fortress that is still privately owned and in the same family since 1661 which is sufficiently rare in France to be worthy of note, as most of them changed hands with the revolution in 1790summat. The very pointy extremeties of the castle walls is typical of castles designed by Vauban who was the first person to figure out that a fort based on an exaggerated star floorplan allowed all of the walls to be swept by fire from at least one other he was an incredible guy and hugely important in French history. stopped her for Lunch and took a leaf out of Bobo neleg's book of lunch by having sarnies and a flask of tea ( how very english of me!) by the time I got to Beaune, which is a aealthy and pretentios place heaving with porche cayennes andBMWx6s and audi convertibles, and got what I wanted from a mindnumblingly dense shop assistant I needed to push a bit to get home before curfew so didn't stop much on the way back except once to remove the thermal liner from my jacket and have another swig of tea As per usual, I outran the gps and got home with half an hour to spare... about 320 km in all. ?

yeah, I want him to keep the old one as an "off road" chair that he can use as and when we're allowed back into town. that'd work so lng as we all know what the plan is in advance cos the carers need to know which chair to use for the day cos it's a looong and complicated job getting him into and out of it ( seeting as he can only move his eyes and his left hand a little.

nah, he's supposed to be getting a new chair with a fonction that will "verticalise" him. ie move him into an upright position. He's tried one and though the upright position is good the chair is less good with manouverabilit and less capable outside on the broken pavements etc. We need to see if there's options available to remedy that, Oh yeah, the base model costs 26,000€ which is more than my car cost new...

Nope, pfizer. I'm not really old enough, but allowed it for health reasons.