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Just Katie

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  1. Hi Coops,  we have been squirrelling about on facebook.  I have decided to return as there are more nuts over here.
  2. [quote user="nectarine"] "Reproduction begins as early as January, when one or more males will chase a female, making spectacular leaps through the forest canopy and spiralling up and down the trunks of trees. After mating, pregnancy lasts for 38 days Sue [/quote] I wish I was a squirrel.
  3. Gary please stop insulting us Welsh.  I dont know anyone Welsh who would be seen dead in a hat like that.
  4. Bet she would if she had the chance Clair!!  She is looking for a job and loves to lay the law down
  5. Oh come on Jura, you are an intelligent girl do you really believe that this kind thing, is peculiar to Britain alone?  I don't think so, more like another one of your bitter anti British rants.  Why don't you be a little nicer to us, afterall we are your mother land arent we? [Www]
  6. Where has the lounge gone Twinks?  You are in the know these days, ringing the Mods and all that.  Come on, spill the beans.
  7. I have used a very good book in the past called the Curry Secret, you make a pile of base which you can freeze, then you add your ingredients to this to create almost any curry you want.  They are extremely good too. You may get it on amazon
  8. Hi Clair, I am over my crisis now and have accepted the city way of doing things.  It really is an eye opener to move from small town to city as it was when I moved from London as a child to a small town in Wales.  As for the attic, that is where I live, the top floor of a Hausseman building.  It is lovely, the sun all day and the sound of rain on the zinc roof when I am in bed is wonderful. I and while I am in France, I will always be an immigrant 
  9. [quote user="jon"]Katie...we came from London  where we had a restaurant......and this chef cooks in a style unlike all those ghee greasy dishes which most people know.I can not explain without you tasteing that his cooking is light and full in flavour...not merel spices but of the vegetables,meat and fish which he cooks.He will be a prize attraction here in France if the project gets support.[/quote] I would travel there myself for the experience Jon.  The thing is, I have read reviews on many of the Paris restaurants, claiming their dishes are like UK but they are not, I dont know who writes these reviews, maybe the chefs mother. There is a large British population in Paris but wheather a UK type Indian restaurant would suceed, who knows.  
  10. Hi Jon I live in Paris where there are many Indian restaurants but I still have not found one that resembles the ones in UK.  However, personally, I would prefer the food, somehow the ingredients seem to contain less additives and seem more home made for example. It is true that you will not find a hot curry on the menu;  I like a Madras but it comes back more like a brown kurma.  I have found a restaurant that I particularly like and asked them to fire the curry up a bit which they did and you know what?  It was the best ever, so light with texture and body, not much oil, perfect. The restaurant owner should happily oblige to suit your taste.
  11. [quote user="krusty"]Where is the "lounge" , I thought it might be some bar near where you live ?[/quote] Some time ago Krusty, there were many people who brought the tone of the forum down by posting utter rubbish and often this had nothing to do with France, this drivel often got posted into the late hours of the night and into the following morning.  Many posts were created under the influence which meant poor old Rus had to stay up all night, rollers in hair and full strength coffee in hand to stop any outbreak of bunfight.  These people were so irritating, the best thing the Mods could do was to create an area within the forum called the Lounge, and it was here they all gathered, away from the more learned forum member. Since then, I haven't posted that often and, on my return, I find the lounge has now been closed down and is boarded up maybe due to dwindling members.  At one time, many members got banned from the Lounge and went to the pub next door which was fun as we used to go and peep through the window and listen to what they were saying about us.  They were a right motley crew    
  12. Twinkle will talk to me [:P]
  13. Anyone fancy meeting me in the lounge tomorrow night for a chat and a catch up[8-|][B]? Oh and to talk a bit of crap too[:)]
  14. Does anyone know where I can get a nice poster of Obama for my bedroom wall? [8-)]
  15. [quote user="Jonzjob"] Well Hagar, there seem to be 4 of us on the same planet. We went to the market in Carcassonne last Saturday morning. There were about 4 or more Bio stalls selling vegatables, all top quality and at reasonable prices. At least 2 Bio bakers and several who were not. Some wonderful stuff to be had. We didn't even get chance to get to the meat/fish market hall, we were so loaded down. So we went and had a lovely cup of coffee and went home to a lovely lunch of what we had just bought! As for tomatoes, they are still on the vines in the local gardens and allotments and they look lovely too! To add, the tomatoes in the market came in every size, shape and colour. Including multicoloured ones of green throught yellow to deep red all on the same tomato... Perfectly ripe and ready to eat. I don't know about Leader Price, Albi or Netto and can't comment as to what they are like because we have never been in there? [/quote] But I work and dont have time to go to the markets.  I therefore have to rely on supermarkets.  If I choose to cook fresh, the veg is often manky and if I choose ready meals, they are all full of e's and rubbish. Where is Lloyd Grosman when you need him?
  16. I made Delias crumpets a few years back with the kids.  They are so easy and really nice
  17. I bought a pack of frozen chips the other day and they were a refrozen pile of rot!! [:@] Honestly, like they had allowed them to thaw, left them there to rot for two weeks, then put them back in the freezer.  Frozen green and black powder.
  18. What do you mean, the French wouldnt allow them into the system?  They refused to take tax payments and cotisations from them?
  19. I never bother with speedy boarding.  It is quite funny really because when I fly out of Bristol, the speedyboarders make a line all looking pleased with themselves  but what they dont know is when they actually go through, they have got to sit on a bus for 30 minutes whilst everyone else is being checked through.  Then, when everyone else gets onto the bus, the speedyboarders get pushed to the back.  Me? I go through last, get on the bus last, get off the bus and onto the plane first.  No fuss, no worrying and no expense. [:)] Can we get some smug smilies?
  20. My daughter worries that I will get into her facebook.  My son worries that there will be no food left for him.  I used to worry about a nuclear war. Maybe my kids worry about this too though I doubt it, they have no interest in current affairs, only themselves.  My husband used to be convinced that he would die before the age of 30.
  21. My daughter worries about not being able to get into nightclubs.
  22. [quote user="Scooby"]The christmas decorations in Perigueux (and the shops generally) are lovely.  They usually have an ice rink and fun fair - which my kids love...but take gloves or they won't let you on.  Oh and everything they say about the cold is true- flippin perishing but wonderful hoar frosts. [/quote] That sounds lovely.  I really hate the UK at christmas or should I rephrase 'christmas' for 'September to December'.  Why do people go so mad and grabby?
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