dragonrouge
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We are members and have been for many years. Folks no such thing as a free lunch. The pricing tool that BF have takes into account all possible scenarios. Having just spent quite a lot of money on the St Malo crossing and return in these troubled times may have to think about LD lines with whom I have no financial relationship. Also the food on the BF crossings seldom change. If a restaurant continued to go along these lines they would soon be out of business. These guys have the monopoly. If I see beef in Cahors wine sauce once more.................... Of course the majority of the food on the crossings are boil in the bag that the Roux brothers perfected.
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Thanks Poppy I am so grateful. It is tough and the mornings are difficult with the so-called routines that I had to do. I remember Jean Claude with so much love and in his pomp he truly was a wonderful specimen. I have had so many Bassets and he was by far the most handsome and he knew it. I remember the walks through Chepstow woods and where we once lived. I remember the holidays at our then Normandie second home with all its land and just opening the front door and to see him return some time later after a joyous time in the grounds.
The simple things are now missing and I have to close now for I am in tears and as I said before I do not think I can get through this its is destroying me.
I am sorry for the lateness of the acknowledgement but have been away for a few days and the empty house on our return has just about broken me.
with my kindest regards
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Dear Tony have been off air for some time and only just returned from the UK where there are some family difficulties. Here I too lost my best friend Jean Claude the Basset who I miss every day so very much. Normal morning routines are not the same and I just cannot get the Vets out of my head and the final moments. It has destroyed me.
Some here will think I am stupid but I am trying to get my head around lots of things.
Tony have not forgotten the seeds I promised you and will do it this week end. Think I have organic tom seeds as well. Sorry in all of this have lots your address. Please can you pm me with the details and I will post on Monday.
Meanwhile for bio tom plants in a huge range of varieties go to Ferme Ste Marthe and you can organise delivery to suit your schedule and weather conditions. Have seen too heavily forced tom plants in the garden centres. Too early here for the Vendee.
rdgs
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Come on Dog show your balls or lack of wedding gear you have never responded on South Africa are your views totally restricted to the animal kingdom. You are a poor pathetic individual who is esconced somewhere thinking how can I hurt everyone else on this plantet because they do not agree with me. I think as a lawyer that this forum because of its origins has a duty under the Freedom of Information Act thus I will tomorrow be making an application .
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Dog you have hit me on the most difficult day that I have ever endured. Today I have lost my dog Jean Claude who believe me although a 'dog' would lose you from a thousand standpoints. He was loyal did not wish for much save for my love and attention and to be fed and not pulses but as a hound things that have been fed to hunting dogs for all of their lives. By example take say a National Hunt Racecourse. Whether you agree with it or not is not for this forum. But a horse comes down then the green surrounds come around it and the vet takes over. What do you think the horse ambulances do..............take it to the local hunt. Do you agree or not with National Hunting Racing or do you too believe that putting horses over the jumps is to be argued against.
Also you have dived for want of a better word into the Rhone Valley and its wine and believed what you are seeing. Although not Parker the Rhone has been my love for over 40 years have been there for that time met and developed relationships with the growers from Father to Son. With Clape in Cornas to Guigal in Cote Rotie then to Rayas in Chateau neuf du Pape and then Beaucastel. Then to Gigondas and to Sablet. Before I left the UK I had over 4000 bottles in my cellar. That is not boasting for I researched the product and it was my passion. I do not believe in spraying in the garden buy all bio seeds and if blight comes along to the toms then so be it.
You know nothing whatsoever are probably possessed of spots and lack of hair and teeth brown from pulses and the like.
That is your right and I do not deride that I respect it but today you truly have got on the wrong side of me and today I am mounting a battle and I will find you out for what you are a bigot who wishes to push down the throat of others a belief . I do not have a problem with that but with the way you are trying to organise the defence of your system.
I will be open I have asked today for you to be taken off the air for without oxygen you poor sad and without balls character will not live.
Please do not respond for if you do I will come hunting bear.
Today is not a good day for you.
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I am here but Jean Claude is not and he died in my arms earlier this afternoon. I was with him all of the time kissing him hugging him as best one can with a huge basset hound. But before he went the vet said that his heart was very weak and he was suffering. That made it easier. He will come back to us shortly and will be put in the garden and facing the sun. He was somewhat lazy as bassets normally are but sunshine was his thing and when in his youth his colour said everything. With that good people I close this episode and once more thank you for all of your kindnesses.
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You will never ever know how much my wife truly appreciate your kind words and thoughts it has been such a help. I am now composing myself for we have to sort out a few things.
I will never ever meet you but I truly believe that out there we have friends and with that final thought I include Jean Claude.
with our very best wishes
Ken
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Out there are some lovely caring individuals and your support is helping me get through all of this. As I type this Jean Claude is sat by my feet I am not sure I can do this but I owe it to him.
with my sincere thanks for all of your help
I will not forget this time and your support
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Today this so-called hard headed lawyer and a son of a late Rhondda Valley miner who was also tough but in an entirely differing way to his son has to say goodbye to the last in the line of Bassets and stretching over many decades.
I adore my Basset and today he and I are going to take the last journey today and folks I am finding this so very hard to get through and my life will never be the same again.
This posting is not made for sympathy compassion or understanding none of those but simply help as this site has always been able to do!
Some time ago someone very kindly posted a poem here in respect of our animal friends and thus if someone could point me in the direction then I would be so grateful and I would like the poem to go today with Jean-Claude on his last journey.
This is so very tough for me.
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I have a suggestion as against slugging it out on the net and without the ability to see the whites of each other eyes. Come on Dog lets meet up and see what we are like in reality and to see if we can both take the heat.
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I was on the point of completely destroying your argument then remembered my earlier posting.
However you still have not responded on South Africa are animals more important than human beings.
Be brave Dog show us your pedigree and comment upon South Africa and its approach both to wildlife and human beings.
Your actions will give us the man.
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Dear Dog I really did think about my earlier responses not wishing to offend you and indeed I thought I was supportive of your positioning in all of this. My position in respect of your beliefs has not change and I truly do accept you have a point and I respect your views. But now to be blunt accept mine please.
This Wimbledon approach is never going to change my mind and certainly will never change yours.
Surely intelligent people will accept anothers standpoint and them move on but if you are on a mission that mission will fail and you would have achieved nothing save for thinking at least I tried. But in so doing you have failed and the argument will never never succeed and in so doing you have firmly posted yourself here as an individual with a 'problem'
There is an argument that if you starve something of oxygen then it dies. I will not respond further to your postings but here I continue to stress the RSA argument to which you have not responded as in SA red wine.
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Tony F Dordogne is the expert here on such matters and I am sure he will be able to help. But if you go to the garden centres now or Vert P or whatever they are lists which say what pots do what.
The French being the French very much like to have a store of pots for the winter months and would not been seen dead in buying them unless absolutely necessary.
rdgs
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Christine Animal on this site is an angel and heavily involved in animal welfare protection and the like. She appears regularly under this section. Suggest you send her a pm or a direct email and she will let you know the up to date position.
We love Staffies but ours is now 16 and coming to the end of her life. She too has been devoted and an angel
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Of posting but now go to the restaurant on the main square in Gigondas where the previous owners were French back of house and German wife front. Now the menu has totally changed and is wonderful. The old owners now have a superb place in Sablet which is of course a CDR village.
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OK in Chateau Neuf du Pape Chateau Beaucastel is so very well known all over the world indeed and just down the road from them are two sisters who do not spray and do things in line with the moon but I forget the name of the Domain. Every year in the UK I used to look forward to the opening offers from Lay and Wheeler and Tanners of Shrewsbury on the Beaucastel offering. Pay for it then and eighteen months later in my cellar at home and where it was treasured! Keep it for say two to three years and then sell some cases and which paid for one owns consumption.
But the other is Gramenon and this is what it says ' Le vin en liberte' Montbrison-sur-lez and its just up the road from Valreas. They have over 100 year vines and restricted quantities so the deal is some of the very good wine from 100 year vines and say two to three bottles of the slightly not so good!
Unfortunately Phillipe died in a tractor accident a few years ago but his wife continues with the business.
I really do recommend a holiday in the Rhone start off with Hemitage and Cote Rotie and then Cornas in the North go down to the Cote du Rhone and CDR villages CDP Gigondas and the lovely restaurants thereabout throw in the markets including Isle sur Sorgue on Sunday perfect ten day holiday
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Dear Steve it would not happen in Les Chesfrene.
But a couple of questions.
Is self preservation important to you
To whom do you owe a duty of care and responsibility
Does you family and its well doing come into this at all.
Do you need the job and if you left or got sacked what are the chances of new employment
Can you live with yourself.
Only you can answer the questions and I would not know what to do save let us say in a more 'developed' culture and where certain things should not (but still do happen)
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Dear Dog
I do apologize for I missed one little issue and which I would now like to put to you.
Have you ever been to the wine producing regions of South Africa and before you pose the same question to me I would answer in the affirmative. I have also been on a cricket tour of South Africa and would never go again for I too have very strong feelings as to even today the treatment of others in South Africa but my views like religion and where we come from is absolutely a concept for myself and no one else.
Still quickly back to food and indeed wine.
I will not bore you with what the people in the wine regions get paid or how they live or how they bring up their families or aids or anything like that. If you knew and with your strong views I suggest you would not drink South African red wine again.
But if you went to north of Valreas in the Rhone and to a wonderful vineyard where no poison in sight or to Beaucastel near CDP you would buy their wines. Personal choice again.
If you have or have not is a very important question and one I think you might have difficulty with whatever the answer.
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Dear Dog I absolutely respect your views and equally your right in expressing those views. Equally you hopefully will be able to respect my views and my approach to food per se.
This is a very emotive subject and I would have thought that what is not required here is for you with respect to try to force your views on others. You have made yourself absolutely clear and we respect you for that. What I am finding it difficult is however the fact that we are being harassed and chased for not agreeing with you.
I love fish but will not eat Cod for obvious reasons. My wife does not eat fish so essentially there is little fish in our diet. I love crab and prefer to boil my own but that might now start you on a mission against me. If so then I will respect your approach but only if personal attacks are left somewhere else. I eat meat and try to buy bio as best I can and certainly when I lived in the UK bought from only one source who raised his stock with the utmost of animal husbandry and care for the animal and the distance between the farm and the abbatoir was very minimal. But I will not eat abats I will not eat foie gras and never ever veal.
However there are many on here who do so its back to respect again and I believe I should not try to force them to go along with my beliefs.
I do not smoke never have but for those who do its a personal thing and unless I am assailed by it as I was on many occasions in a restaurant then its not a problem . I have seen what happened to my Father who was a miner and smoked and the after effects on the lungs. But if you want to smoke smoke. But there is a downside in all of this as well in that in the warmer weather here in France one might wish to eat outdoors in a restaurant. So to will those who smoke and who are obeying the rules in smoking outside!
I drink predominately red wine and those who know me well will tell you only wines from the Rhone and which have been my love for over thirty years. There are some on here who would say that Bordeaux is better Burgundy et al. Essentially in all of this are personal views which in the majority of cases should be supported but minus personal attacks.
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Ok UlsterRugby and your predictions for the rest of the season are?
I think you have to go to Scotland and Wales so along that route you could in theory at least fail in the Triple Crown and of course fall at the last hurdle for the grandslam.
And for England and France?
Good starting point for a day that is meant to be taken up by painting!
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Hi UlsterRugby a wonderful pre match feast but not if your Irish hosts who lived out in the mountains outside Dublin gave you a traditional breakfast with is it oat cakes or the like plus then lots of Irish coffee(with something added) and for breakfast and for days before you had been on the Guinness even during the holy hour in the afternoon. Then a breakneck ride in a taxi to Gresham Place it was a bit difficult let us say but that was the first time in Dublin for me. On future visits it was all together different I so enjoyed it!
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Hi Baypond you are absolutely correct. You might find this difficult to believe but Henson is not all together rated in Wales. Powell is a battering ram much as Tindall is in the three quarters for England.
I suggested that we would face problems in Paris........imagine a Friday night at the Stade de France before a baying an totally unknowledgeable Parisien crowd? France had to win.
Now let me take a punt (sorry for that) but I say a very close game in Dublin today and England to sneak a win? How about that for I think that Martin Johnson would have say a few things this week.
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Sorry Ulster Rugby I told you so in that I feared for us in Paris as much as I fear for England in Dublin.
It perhaps can be said within Wales that we are let us say at times one-eyed but equally we know our rugby. We have had many false dawns in the past and whilst this side is good it is not the finished article. There are outstanding players and amongst those Lions as well but let us not think that due to two wins to date against a poorish Scottish side and a mixed-bag against England that we are world beaters.
We have a very tough one against Ireland but that is in our own back yard and it will be different.
If the game today goes the Irish way then the last game of the Six Nations will be superb.
But then if England pull it out of the bag (and we all must admit that they too have some wonderful players) then where does that leave us?
I am currently being assailed by our French neighbours so its going to be one of those days.
Never mind cricket is my first love but then I am old fashioned and loved the time when only those say who were born within the Yorkshire boundary could play for the club. Be it rugby or cricket we now have people representing their countries and whose background is say elsewhere. I am not sure I am happy even the West Indies now have a New Zealand guy playing for them. What do Sir Viv Courtney Walsh and the rest think of that.
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Hi we had a very expensive kitchen fitted last year and then equally expensive tiles and are on main drainage. Then before Xmas we found the dishwasher water as in the final rinse was coming back into the kitchen plus other stuff. Had the dishwasher checked problem in the drains but where? Had the drainage guys out (80 euros forfait) put their pipe up but reached a blockage about 7m away!
Then returned with a camera type device plus a sort of geiger counter. Then by a process of strange sounding noises found seemingly the source of the blockage. Then plumber and heavy duty kit proceeded to take up our floor! Wife in tears.
Four hours later no sign. Patron of drainage company came up again with geiger. But this time he pushed water up the pipe then with the geiger found the source of the problem which was a meter or so away from where we were first informed it was! Within a half an hour the plumber found the problem and they were collapsed elbow joints from some years ago. But of course they were under both the new and old floor and tiles! Cost over 1000 euros so be aware.
Tried to claim on that lovely insurance company who is somewhat well known and they said no an expert should have been called. Yes with a hole a meter deep in the kitchen and water everywhere. Then promptly sad that I will cancel all our car insurances with them obviously the house our complimentaire plus other bits and pieces of investments.
They are now paying up
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I have just finished the viewing of todays matches. We the Welsh were lucky but of course it was with a side of some ten changes. That suggests that a percentage game came into play and somewhat fresh legs for next week in Cardiff.
Scotland and Ireland was very typical of the games between the sides and I think heavy legs on the Irish side for next week in Cardiff.
Tomorrow I see England walking over France at HQ.
Results for next week end Wales quite easily taking out Ireland at home of all good true rugby Cardiff.