1 still the same in 2013....
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Well - we all know what Easter is..if you don't go here and click the language needed - enter Easter - and off you go! http://www.wikipedia.org/ Like all modern day festivities, it has degenerated more or less into an orgy of food and drink , useful for the Christmas industry - to melt down the left over Christmas chocolate and reform it into eggs, chickens , hens and all the rest, for the poultry and meat industry as at Christmas time, with the important addition of spring lamb . No - I'm not going to give you any ideas - just our menus "Chez Marzocca-Mitchell" - mr le marquis. Sunday Easter..... Aperos Eggs Mimosa Baked Ham with steamed potatoes and (quality & price dependant) fresh local asparagus..... Dessert Cerises Baden-Baden (cherries with a hot chocolate sauce, ice cream and whipped cream in ice cream coupe form) Cheese and Café The appropriate local wines will be served. This image wa
Some notes…….. Vauvert-a combien des mètres (Photo credit: iwmpop ) OK by me! Forgot the problem of “ Americaniz ( s ) ed ” English! Tomato ( e ) s and Colo ( u ) rs don’t come up often – thankfully. My excessive use of the exclamation point is normal – I’m Scottish and therefore excitable……… ( iwmpop ) mr. le Marquis English: Vauvert (Gard, Fr) Canal du Bas-Rhône (Canal Philippe Lamour). (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Vauvert , France 27 June 2007 ********************************** A travel story by mr. le Marquis who lives in Vauvert , Fr ance Adv e nt ures – not so long ago! I remem ber a time (like many of you, without doubt) not so long ago, when a voyage was an adve n ture. In the space of a couple of days, within Europe, we changed systems, languages, currency, standards of living, among many other things. I recall when even a trip to F ranc e was
Vauvert-legumes 2 (Photo credit: iwmpop ) Some notes…….. OK by me! Forgot the problem of “ Americaniz ( s ) ed ” English! Tomato ( e ) s and Colo ( u ) rs don’t come up often – thankfully. My excessive use of the exclamation point is normal – I’m Scottish and therefore excitable……… ( iwmpop ) mr. le Marquis Vauvert-halles noel poisson (Photo credit: iwmpop ) Vauvert , France ( This photo any use?) 27 June 2007 ********************************** A travel story by mr. le Marquis who lives in Vauvert , Fr ance Adv e nt ures – not so long ago! I remem ber a time (like many of you, without doubt) not so long ago, when a voyage was an adve n ture. In the space of a couple of days, within Europe, we changed systems, languages, currency, standards of living, among many other things. I recall when even a trip to F ranc e was fraught with problems, difficul ties , amusing s itu ations, dangerous s
Oh boy - this place is a "bummer"
It’s a fact that when you ’re lying around – particularly in a hospital bed, - you ask yourself how you could have got here. When you’re aware, also , that you had and still have, many thoughts and ideas for the future both of yourself and the person you love, it does become extremely difficult to “ stay calm” – particularly when you feel just great, if tired and weary of needles being stuck in you! When you reach a stage that the very hospital you are in has almost run out of ideas, then you start wondering where you’re going! Once again I’m lying here , waiting for the visit from some “specialist” vascular – from the Neurovascular Department. I seem to spend an awful lot of time just lying here – waiting! Be it for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a doctor, (sometimes Tina Concetta) – I spend more than half of the little time I have left just waiting! And it gets annoying …..!” Right now it seems that they have finally decided that I was quite correct in what I said s
Boom boom.......
I recall, way back, that certain voices in power at the time, were warning permanently about a " baby boom " would come - was already in progress. It came, apparently, from the return of some troops from the war, with the inevitable consequences! Being born in 1946, I myself am a part of this baby boom, but somehow it's got a lot worse than previewed. Related articles Schools must grow to tackle baby boom (manchestereveningnews.co.uk) Baby boom sparks midwives crisis across the UK (dailyrecord.co.uk)c Now and then I wonder if there are plans afoot to put bromide in the water, but it is a serious problem - Africa has been suffering for decades - more than other countries since agriculture is not really available, and health treatment almost non- existant . One question to be asked is whether the problems within the British NHS and the pitiful state of Health Insurance in the USA is a situation "wanted" by the Governments. And yet - we we