Virtual cruise Lyon to Avignon and Arles

DillytheGardener

FannyCornforth completely off topic but where is that lovely dress from?

Good morning friends, I’m sorry that I couldn’t join you yesterday evening. I was stuck in my cabin (is that what it’s called?)
It all looked absolutely fabulous.

Wow, ixion! ? You scrub up well!

Dilly the dress is from GN’s favourite; Sea Salt Cornwall.
If you haven’t seen their website, before you are in for an absolute treat.

FannyCornforth I had heard of Sea Salt mentioned on GN but never looked it up. Thank you so much! But oh dear, I’ve just ordered several things, but I’ll now be suitably dressed for our cruise, swishing in a ‘fit and flare dress with a vintage print’ ??

Oh that’s excellent Dilly!
You deserve it

Good morning.

Sunday in Lyon.

Tomorrow morning we are due to move southward. travelling around twenty miles to Vienne, where we are due to be moored overnight on Monday.

Bonjour.
Talking fashion while I was at Le Musée des tissus yesterday I learnt all about the silk industry in Lyon.
It dates back to the 15th century. By early 17thcentury there were more than 10,000 silk looms in the city and in the 18th century, more than one third of Lyon’s population was involved in silk production and its commercialisation.
The French revolution 1789 ruined all this - see what happens when you get rid of your monarchy, imbeciles!!
Anyway, I just had to make a purchase of a Lyon silk scarf and had the good fortune to find a square with a gastronomic patisserie theme! Now to parade it at breakfast!

Here

StarDreamer

[arch] Fanny can we modify the no links rule please, but only for links to videos? [/arch]

Sorry to be dense, but what does [arch] mean?

I think it's secret code, Maw, for those in the Inner Sanctum.

Ah, inner sanctums/sancta - were never my strong point.
Is that near the pointy end of the boat?

FannyCornforth thank you, they had exactly what I’ve been fruitlessly searching all the shops for. I’m looking forward to Vienne, there is a high of 28 tomorrow, what will we all be doing?

MawtheMerrier

Ah, inner sanctums/sancta - were never my strong point.
Is that near the pointy end of the boat?

No, Maw, near the bilges...

Pooh!

ixion

I think it's secret code, Maw, for those in the Inner Sanctum.

Nope, no idea ?‍♀️
Archaic perhaps?

Can’t see your patisserie scarf Joseanne?

Only SD can explain this code.

Is it like the da Vinci ?
(I still haven’t got over shouting “It’s Leonardo you numbskull)!
But I digress

Do we have a handy enigma machine on board?

MawtheMerrier

Is it like the da Vinci ?
(I still haven’t got over shouting “It’s Leonardo you numbskull)!
But I digress

Digress away Maw! That really gets on my goat too.
In fact I started a thread in pedants corner about it (it didn’t go down well)
There is a secondary school here in Derby called ‘Da Vinci’ and I think that it’s wrong.
We don’t refer to Joseph Wright of Derby as ‘Of Derby’

MawtheMerrier

StarDreamer

[arch] Fanny can we modify the no links rule please, but only for links to videos? [/arch]

Sorry to be dense, but what does [arch] mean?

It is a reference to the arch feature in Star Trek The Next Generation.

memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Arch

The idea is that in a simulation, if one wishes to change the set up of the simulation, one calls the word arch and the structure of the arch appears and it has the controls to adjust the set up of the simulation.

So, as in the earlier discussion thread Fanny had suggested that there be no links in this simulation, I use [arch] to discuss changing that rule, then I used [/arch] to close the arch after that change.

I know, I know, geek stuff.

So if anyone wants to change the set up of the simulation, just use [arch], then that separates the set up of the simulation from the running of the simulation.

Fanny, have you seen

vinci-closluce.com/en

There is also Google street view, within the grounds, and in the château, at several floor levels too, though at present the views inside do not seem to be available.

So if anyone wants to change the set up of the simulation, just use [arch], then that separates the set up of the simulation from the running of the simulation

StarDreamer

*Fanny*, have you seen

vinci-closluce.com/en

There is also Google street view, within the grounds, and in the château, at several floor levels too, though at present the views inside do not seem to be available.

Personally I hate these so-called “immersive experiences”
Everyone, I suspect, has an expression that’s their pet hate. Mine? That’s easy: “immersive experience”. Perhaps these two seemingly innocuous words haven’t registered yet on your linguistic radar. Over the past three or so years, though, they’ve become my lexical bane.
Alastair Sook put it very well I the DT a few weeks go
Almost every day now, as this paper’s chief art critic, I receive another cliché-befouled press release announcing an “experience”, usually designed to illuminate the life and work of one of the greats of modern art, which promises to be “immersive”. Can experience be anything else?
As he says, try standing in front of a painting if you want to “immerse” yourself in a great work of art.

We are simulating a river cruise from Lyon to Avignon and Arles, suspending our disbelief that we are really there, not just each wherever we are using some sort of device, computer or mobile phone or whatever. Like reading a book and suspending one's disbelief that a real Mr Collins is actually arriving to try to woo a real Jane Bennet.

That story is fixed.

Yet this event is happening now, and there are rules, such as Fanny suggesting there be no links.

That is fine, as it keeps text contained in the thread rather than in linked articles.

Yet running the sumlation, that is, posting in this thread, led to realising that while avoiding links to text is good, because people can post short summaries in the thread, it did mean that links to videos could not be included if we continued with that rule.

So to modify the rule would need stepping outside of the simulation itself, so I used [arch] to signify that that was a change to the structure of the simulation, not a part of the simulation, such as is describing the dinner that was served yesterday evening.

Germanshepherdsmum

Do we have a handy enigma machine on board?

I'd prefer to be treated by someone who knows what they are doing, if you don't mind.
That rubber tubing can be lethal in the wrong hands ( or so I'm told ). Prolly why it's near the bilge.

StarDreamer

We are simulating a river cruise from Lyon to Avignon and Arles, suspending our disbelief that we are really there, not just each wherever we are using some sort of device, computer or mobile phone or whatever. Like reading a book and suspending one's disbelief that a real Mr Collins is actually arriving to try to woo a real Jane Bennet.

That story is fixed.

Yet this event is happening now, and there are rules, such as Fanny suggesting there be no links.

That is fine, as it keeps text contained in the thread rather than in linked articles.

Yet running the sumlation, that is, posting in this thread, led to realising that while avoiding links to text is good, because people can post short summaries in the thread, it did mean that links to videos could not be included if we continued with that rule.

So to modify the rule would need stepping outside of the simulation itself, so I used [arch] to signify that that was a change to the structure of the simulation, not a part of the simulation, such as is describing the dinner that was served yesterday evening.

?Girls Just Wanna Have Fun? ??????
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Oh it's malapropism time!