dwmcn
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KKK,
I have been living in England off and on since 1970 and permanently since 1984 so am not typically anything. If nobody can answer my question, fine, I will look elsewhere. I worked in archaeology for years and am used to research.
Bush is not my president as I didn't vote for him or anyone else. You are a typical whatever you are.
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Opas,
I picked this topic because the zillion others that I checked had been dead for some time. I figured that if I started another nobody would look at it.
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Apparently not, good bye. (Useless waste of time, this forum.)
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No, I drink my own homemade wine. Now, can anyone answer my question?
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I'm only posting here because nobody seems to be using the other threads. Some years ago I visited an odd housing complex in, I think, eastern France. It was, as I remember, terra cotta in color and the houses looked like deep-sea divers helmets with ?round windows. It had an outdoor theater like a Roman amphitheater. Does anybody here know the name of this complex or the name of the architect? If I took any photos, I seem to have misplaced them.
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saddie,
It seems like postcards sent from France are treated like rubbish no matter how much postage you put on them. On the other hand, our sorting office in Watford loses (better known as steals) about as much as it delivers, especially if it contains something important. However, they do give you a dozen free first class stamps for items lost (stolen). I received a piece of recorded mail and the bit to sign on was missing.
I have a small yellow French post box bank that I got from a post office in France. I said that I wanted it for my grandson, which I ain't got. It is probably as efficient as the real ones.
David
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I do this quite often and while it looks like they are deleted, they still appear on the drop down list. Very annoying. Once it approaches 'overload' AOL deletes the lot. I also delete old e-mail by going into AOL's Manage E-mail. They told me recently that I had over 6,000 e-mails that I thought I had deleted.
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Russethouse,
As I haven't read any of Drinkwater's books, and don't intend to, I have nothing to get cross about. She probably had a ghost writer anyhow.
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Russethouse,
Drinkwater is just cashing in on her success as an actress.
Loomis has written several cookbooks, the latest is Cooking at Home on Rue Tatin. Her cooking school in Louviers has a website at www.onruetatin.com
Our new Living France arrived today and we also had a French market in St. Albans. I bought a jar of fish soup (poisson), un baguette, a large head of pink garlic and some radishes. It was warm so we ate lunch in the garden with our old French Country Camping (now part of Eurocamp) umbrella over the table with a French tablecloth on it. If you can't be there..... Bon appetit!
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Barry,
In The Vine Country by Edith Somerville and Martin Ross 1893 - Two cousins travelling in the Medoc. 237 pages. (They also wrote The Irish RM books which were made into a TV series starring Peter Bowles.)
The Luberon Garden by Alex Dingwall-Main 2001. An English gardener, broadcaster for the BBC and columnist for the Sunday Times designing gardens in France. 317 pages.
An Englishman In The Midi by John P Harris 1991. Based on his Radio 4 series. 125 pages. (Also, More From An Englishman In The Midi 1993. 127 pages.)
Return To Paris by Colette Rossant 2003. A memoir with recipes. 244 pages.
Life In A Postcard by Rosemary Bailey 2002. A woman and her family buy a property in the French Pyrenees and fix it up. A bit to pretentious for me. 334 pages.
The Duck With A Dirty Laugh by Anne Loader 1998. Family adventures in rural France (St. Paradis) 217 pages.
On Rue Tatin by Susan Loomis ?2002 or before. Life in a small French town including recipes. 296 pages.
French Spirits by Jeffrey Greene 2002. Living in Burgundy. Haven't read it yet, but supposedly 'Charming and hilarious.'. 283 pages.
The Piano Shop On The Left Bank by T E Carhart 2000. An American living in Paris and his discovery of a piano repair shop. I quite liked this one. 239 pages.
All are in paperback.
When we were on holiday in the Vendee we went into a wine shop where a man out back was grilling sardines. He looked just like George East.
(Any mistakes due to a cat on my lap.)
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Barry,
I quite like East's books as well. I also like Bill Bryson, but they aren't about France. I have read a lot of the others mentioned as well.
Cherry everything!
in South East (Languedoc-Roussillon, Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur)
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Lori,
I looked everywhere for the photos and no luck. The best I can think of is that I saw it when visiting my grandfather's grave in a US war cemetery near Verdun or when we were on holiday near Lake Annecy. I thought that it might have been been designed by Corbusier, but apparently not. I am getting old and forgetful. Thanks for the suggestions. I will let you all know when I find the place.