Virtual cruise Lyon to Avignon and Arles

Tarts? Ooer!?

Ooer Maw, I hope that won't affect our pause café with Brigitte at Le Fort this week.

Forgive me Joseanne for snatching the poetry baton. Couldn't resist:

Chef Gino who came from Abruzzi
Rushed in with astonishing newsy
The tarts from the cruisey
Were feeling quite woozy
They’d drunk all the Gallici boozy

Oh yes it did

Sorry to lower the tone especially after the Suzzee in the Jacuzzi ode but it appears that Emmanuel Macron’s centrist grouping has lost its absolute majority in parliament, amid gains by a new left alliance and a historic surge by the far right, according to projected results in today’s election.

After five years of undisputed control of parliament, the recently re-elected Macron, who is known for his top-down approach to power, now enters his second term facing uncertainty over how he will deliver his domestic policy such as raising the retirement age and overhauling state benefits. His centrists will need to strike compromises and expand alliances in parliament to be able to push forward his proposals to cut taxes and make changes to the welfare system
Oh la la.
Anyway, revenons à nos moutons…..

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It’s a very big wine cellar

You can all gather in the Jacoozy with the Floozy but Brunhilde and I will be taking care of the serious business in their wine cellar. We may be some time…….?

Jacques sat in the jacuzzi
Listening to Debuzzi
Along came mademoiselle Suzzi
And suggested visiting a musee.

To be continued demain.

Je pense que j'aimerais manger tous les desserts:

Sphère sabayon chocolat noir intense, praliné pistache de Bronte et crumble cacao à la fleur de sel
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Tiramisu léger, biscuit Savoiardi, gelée de marsala, diplomate café, tuile gruée de cacao
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Sablé noisette, crémeux citron, Chantilly noisette du Piémont et fine meringue craquante
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Tatin de pommes sur son feuilletage caramélisé, ganache montée au chocolat blanc et à l’huile d’olive, coulis de pomme acidulé

MawtheMerrier

Can’t wait to see the Floozy in the Jacoozy

Maw - your starter for 10
Gets rid of those aix and pains too.

There -I got it in before someone else did.

MawtheMerrier

Can’t wait to see the Floozy in the Jacoozy

Is that a Morris dance?

We must stay! Look at the breakfast room!

Can’t wait to see the Floozy in the Jacoozy

We are dressing for dinner aren’t we? ? No Doodle not undressing - well not yet anyway.

Are we booked to stay there tonight? The rooms look fab.

I bags Villa Cézanne with Private Jacuzzi.

Then a trip to the Musée Granet tomorrow amongst other things to do in and around Aix.

I might have pushed the boat out a bit here!
La Villa Gallici, Relais et Chateaux à Aix en Provence

Given the company I imagine we’ll be starting with Crudités?

Oh, thank goodness for that Joseanne. People were starting to worry as I told them we had Daphne Whitethigh on standby ready to give us her signature dish Yak à l"Orange.

We must be reading the same lexicon Maw.

Molly … There would appear to be little real rationale for this phenomenon beyond the very natural disposition amongst the British male to cross-dress.

Musicians are often identified by the blueness of their extremities.

Discuss.

Oh, that is lovely!
This really is the cruise which keeps on giving❤️
Could we see the menu in advance svp?

ixion

When are we eating?

I've booked us in here later.

It is reckoned that Morris dancing is an ancient pursuit having been passed down from social outcast, to social outcast. Being the nation’s dance it is important that it is preserved in pure form rather than being corrupted or contaminated (see also “Brexit”). To this end set traditions, guidelines and instructions must be followed. However, please note the frequent caveat kindly provided by Bacon (1974) that this is a “living tradition”. This basically means we can do as we darn well please.

When are we eating?

Lucca

I’ve never had an ‘obby. My bloke has had all the er..”sad” ones. Train spotting and stamp collecting and now bird photography ( not twitching… although he does that due to a medical condition ?

Nothing wrong with trainspotting!

Articles about job hunting used to say, when filling in an application form, and it asks about hobbies "don't put stamp collecting!". I have often why that was often said.

You might like this story that I read many years ago about trainspotting. I think a man who, when young, had been the boy in the story, wrote about it in a magazine about steam locomotive preservation, about 1990.

I think the story probably happened some time in the 1950s.

At the time, express trains on the East Coast main line, London King's Cross to Edinburgh, were (often) hauled by a particular tpe of locomotive, a type A4. They are those very distinctive ones with the streamlined sloping front.

35 were built, but one was destroyed in the war, so 34 were running in the 1950s.

The boy in the story lived close by the track somewhere along the route, conveniently close enough to often be trainspotting as the trains passed by at speed.

He had seen 33 of them, so needed to see one particular one so as to have seen them all, each had a number and a nameplate.

So he wrote a letter, addressed to the Shedmaster of the Locomotive Department at King's Cross, and asked if that particular locomotive could be rostered onto some particular express on some particular day.

And on the day, it was.

"I'm free", later on. "Are you being served dinner" before or after the talk?