anotherbanana
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Given the increased weight of many populations I suspect that a lot of those chairs would collapse pretty quickly. That being said many were quite lovely with designs that are copied today even by places like IKEA.
One thing about the folk we saw in Vienna was that there were almost no real fatties of any generation (excepting tourists) which, was a change from other places. Quite how they do it with all the cakes they stuff and with the very plump statues from cherubs to ladies, is a mystery.
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And Saturday nights can be a bit hectic especially after a local football derby:
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We went to a concert of Haydn, Mozart and Bartok given by the Vienna Philharmonic in the Musikverein, an outstanding concert hall with quality acoustics and fabulous decoration. Audience large and very knowledgable. As I said, Baatok must have had serious mental problems! Haydn and Mozart beautiful.
Weather wet and dry but quite warm; we expected much colder so were cooking in winter coats and the rest.
Just for the ladies, tons of restaurants for all wallets but I thought their menus a bit repetitive, amazing cakes at all time of day. Oh, and shopping, brilliant, often in old fashioned shops.
Buildings were well, go see yourselves, somewhat overpowering.
And naked statues everywhere, Hapsburgs seem to have loved them.
There is no sense of apologizing for their past unlike the British.
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clean as Vienna? Just back from three days culture topping up there and was overwhelmed by the amazing cleanliness of the city centre; no muck, no litter, no tagging (at least in the city centre), few beggars, few tattoos, even the pigeons seem to wear Pampers.
Ok, it must cost a fortune and requires a great deal of civic pride, but it puts so many other places to great shame.
By the way, there are at least 103 museums; if you went to them all you would be a very cultured rich bankrupt. But, the Breughel's are to die for.
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Well done.
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I can’t either.
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Found, it seems in a cheese called morbier, sold by leclerc but you never know.
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Do they hold wigs or hair pieces in place?
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Excellent comments, minteroonie and very accurate. I tend to use less polite words however than your author!
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I do hope Harry is not bringing the wife!
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Tragic for him, his family and the nation. Let’s hope it can be got rid of. Also very tough on William.
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BBC and ITV have cleared out the older generation who were well educated and well spoken ( to use much maligned phrases) and replaced them with young multi racial and multi sexual presenters and actors. The organisation seems to be in the grip of Stonewall and other groups who are practicing a sort of left wing Macarthyite take over of public organisations which includes broadcasters, civil service, NHS, charities such as National Trust… one could go on.
I am very glad not to be teaching at a British university any more; the Left grip was bad enough then but now with all the other ‘stuff’ it would be intolerable.
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More than cost cutting, Methe, political correctness
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Excellent comments right across the board, Minteroonie.
Two things annoy me particularly about the current game; too much kicking which the Welsh teams of old were also very guilty of. Maybe it should be banned outside the 22.
And that England dont pick the players who are plying their trade abroad.
Yesterday, a mediocre match, suggesting that the French team have come to rely on a couple of inspirational players and are a bit lost without them.
Ireland seem to have rebuilt fast after the retirement of their key players; wenshall have to see how they progress.
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Yes please; Loiseau makes exceedingly good pancakes!
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Lucky I got in and out of Belgium when I did as the road blocks seem to have got much bigger.
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She uses both sofas and the armchair. Is a very young Tibetan Terrier belonging to my daughter and the love of my grandson’s life.
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A real little scamp but entirely lovable!
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Yesterday they announced €80,000,000(?)in aid for the vignerons who cant make ends meet and a similar sum to grub out 12.5% of all vines, especially reds(?).
Interesting too that 60% of farms are still family run, many with fewer than 25 cows; how can that ever be rentable.
Farmers need help but they also need to reckon with the realities; in the Vendée the farms were getting much bigger and the youngsters did not want to take over the small holdings as they saw it as as a kind of slavery. Here, where they do take over the farms are much bigger and largely arable with a few pigs.
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Well, judging by the reports the farmers plus a few rentamobbers are having a right old time in Brussels today; as they sit in their overpaid luxury perhaps members of the European Parliament and EU bloated bureaucrats will be reminded that their jobs depend on the little people of Europe and not the bloated industrialists that they so often lunch with. And never never let the EU Commission be led by such an incompetent person with a dreadful record who has no idea of the people.
But they will remember when the extreme Right takes their seats in the EU Parliament and breaks up the bureaucratic stranglehold they have held for so long.
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There are a couple of pairs of grues which overwinter and nest here; maybe you have some as well?
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Motorways from Brussels south blocked and others, bales burning, so had to detour though the countryside. The only road block I saw had pulled back for lunch! But I seriously thought that the lined up tractors were in front of an agency as they were all seemed brand new, which at €100000 each may explain their poverty.
Nothing apparently in the NordPas de Calais.
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No, it isnt, Riggers. I was hoping it would just fade away.
Why cant other European places be as…….
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Respect for themselves?