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Frederick

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  1. I have had a sweet puree on pancakes made from chestnuts.......Light brown in colour I suspect the puree was sweetened with sugar ..honey or treacle  perhaps ? .....You  can also use them puree to add to soups and sauces ......I should think you could boil them up skin them and  puree them down in a blender  and store in jars ...That should get a lot used up ....and you can if you get a good sweet one.... and made up with perhaps a little brandy added ?...or other flavours  ? ....If it works then little gift to pass on to your friends ......If  I had the crop you had I would give Chestnut  Puree a try ! 
  2. Years ago it was explained to me that a person had a problem if they felt that they should take one drink every day ......  Well if that was the case then nearly everybody I knew ... and worked with ...had a drink problem as a couple of pints to wash down the cheese rolls WAS  lunch ...every day ....Then in the evening waiting for the train ...the station bar.... or...  on the train the buffet car  provided  more ...I worked with guys who if they could not get their liquid lunch were as miserable as hell during the afternoon ....but  not one of us would say we were heavy drinkers !...It was what we were used to then ...and millions of people  will be doing and saying the same thing now ...... I salute you Chris ....and you have got me thinking .........I love my wine ......but just perhaps  ...too much ...
  3. 80 cms dish seems just about the standard size for  "Free view  " reception of the UK channels .....My  place in South Vendee gets perfect reception with one .....If its any help the way I did it .. and I get a kick out of doing this sort of thing on the cheap ....was to recycle a 80 cm dish from my local tip (£5) including wall bracket .....Grundig Sky box off ebay with the card in the slot ( £16 )  compass  sitting on the top of the wheely bid  in front of the dish mounted on the wall ..point the dish 23 degrees   East of  dead South   keep it almost vertical .....bingo ....wife happy can now see what Zac Dingle is up to !...... If  I  want to watch the French "Freeview  " again off ebay ..........a laptop TV "Dongle "  very cheap  less than £10 .I plug the the roof arial  into it   and watch all the channels on the  lap top .
  4. Is it common in France for all the Airport car parks that have charges to accept only a CB card ?  I notice at Nantes Airport car parks if you want to get out ....the machines will only take your card  for payment  after you run your ticket through the machine .,..or is there another  machine somewhere that will take your  cash and then magnetically alter your ticket  so it will lift the barrier so  you can get out ?
  5. After years of working at Heathrow .....and seeing Concorde.... and having my hearing damaged by and breathing in the muck from her smelly engines every day.....Did I get to fly on it ?......No.....only reminder I have apart from going deaf is a tie ....perhaps I should offer it for sale here ?
  6. If you want to hear a group of French people talking loudly......take an outside table at the cafe in the middle of the square in Bournemouth.on a Saturday ..You will be surrounded by the students from the language schools  and the French  can hold their own in loud conversations with anybody.....they have to if they want to be heard over  the groups of Poles... Russians .... Arabs ..Chinese ... you name them  .....we have got them ! 
  7. Seems like we have a bargain Will..........The chalk board hanging on the tank in the Cave shows Rhone ( Superior ) Gigondas ...so I cant imagine him marking it up if it is not ........but no mention of a year .....It was flying out of the place when I got my 15 ltrs  so the word had got round 
  8. I have discovered that our local Cave is doing "Gigondas " a red that I think is great !....so now buying at E1.99 ltr in bulk ....and given the outragous price of it in the UK ....long may the tanker continue to deliver .....Anybody who is living in or near the village of Gigondas..........lucky you !   What good ones have you found in your local Cave  ?
  9. Strange neighbours......invite you round to be told to go home by their friends.... and then be rude about your countrymen ....! 
  10. In the part of the Venndee I have my place just inland from La Tranche sur Mer  GB plates during the summer months are everywhere .....The locals have a short summer season in which to make their pile and the tourist is their bread and butter ... I imagine if any stickers were put on GB  plated cars round there ....the locals would be looking for the guy who printed them with a knotted rope !  
  11. It is reported that the "in " place to live or own a second home now is .....................Ventnor .............on the Isle of Wight .....
  12. Going slightly off topic as a holiday home owner who is covered by private medical insurance and not wishing to be  registered as a resident  and claim anything the above does not apply to me ..However ...having been visited this year by three members of the local constabulary. who wanted to know who has keys to my holiday home ...and.... last month  as the Impots office in Lucon sent me a standard printed form wanting to know my full name . and place and date of birth in the UK .I am now  begining to wonder whats changed ? .. After 2 years ownership of the house  it seems  that records are  suddenly being brought up to date so the authorities know just who in the way of non French house occcupiers  they have and where ....They have requested details  from me that are required for a check on Police records..which is fine as far as I am concerned ....Pity the UK have not with their non UK house occupiers done the same .....I was told the information was needed to bring the computer records up to date ...if so ...its taken a while to get round to it .... so I think sombody has issued an instruction to find out who they have got now .
  13. At a huge car boot sale near Talmont St Hilaire (Vendee ) last month I spotted a Cast Iron bell with wall  bracket on which was mounted a cast iron a pig  standing on a hill top .....on asking the price I was told it was 10 euros ....I repeated the price to the seller ....I must have sounded surprised to him..........he replied   OK 7 Euros .....!   I do love a bargain ....Have you found one lately ?
  14. We bought our sprung mattresses after an IKEA run to Nantes not knowing much about them... having not had an IKEA mattress before ....I  am now  so glad I bought them they are giving me a great nights sleep ...we also have the toppers on them which gives added protection ...OK you will find cheaper ones ...but ....IKEA give a guarantee of ....I think about 20 years on theirs so I am not expecting to ever buy another one !
  15. I have just looked at my cover ............Standard Annual Multi - Trip Policy ..........Medical and Treatment cover £5.000.000 , Holiday abandonment  £3,000 plus loads more and they pay you benefit while in hospital......Premium £49.00.....cost you more than that for a decent meal out ......We feel happy to travel without thinking about the consequences of not having cover ....seems you can not or you would not have posted ..........spent the £49 quid and sleep easy .
  16. Llewyncelyn ......you may find next year that Ryan Air will as this year fly from  Nantes to and from Bournemouth...... I have family that used the service this year and 45 minutes  from Nantes after a quick run up the motorway from the South Vendee has given us an alternative to La Rochelle / Bristol and  Southampton  . Bournemouth is getting a new terminal building soon so I am hoping for even more services from there .
  17. Just try and change an item at the Brickolage ....now there is a challenge  for you  !..... Saying that ...I have had guys slit open packaging with a Stanley knife so sizes... threads.. etc can be checked  before I bought ... which is good service  from them ..when at the same place the female staff insist you pay for it first ....and it its wrong.... forget the chance of a refund ...... So perhaps its a female  " I am in charge today thing "   and you got the wrong staff member on the day ?
  18. Last month a meal ordered in a restaurant from the menu item "Three fish from the market " turned out to be grilled salmon ...grilled swordfish...and grilled  "Cuttlefish ".....that was a surprise ... I was not expecting one of them  but it tasted alright ... Anyone had any similar surprises  turn up on their plate when going out for a meal ?
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