Seriously, I do.
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Polar Bear MIA
Great drama averted tonight: polar bear had gone awol! Turned the flat upside down to no avail, and after a round of “I didn’t carry it, did you carry it?” Katy and granddad went to retrace their steps from the walk they had coming back from Bean’s school. Turns out that the very kindly ice cream man they stopped at to get ice cream had perched him on top of the stacked chairs next to his closed up kiosk. We’ll get Bean to draw him a thank you picture.
Quote of the day
I don’t know who said this, but whoever it was is a wise, wise person.
Annoying end to an otherwise good day
We all went to visit Gruyere and the Maison Callier in Broc today. We had a good time visiting the Giger museum and Gruyere castle, and then having raclette for lunch.
We had a bit of an unpleasant surprise when we realised that the window of our patio door was cracked, from the inside :-( We have no clue how that happened, but now I’m fretting about getting it fixed.
Unless we can show it’s a manufacturer defect, it’ll probably go on our civil responsibility insurance. It’s why we have insurance in the first place, but it’s still a worry and a pain.
You can take the woman out of Leicester…
But you can’t take the Leicester out of the woman. How else would you explain belching out loud at a Michelin 2-star restaurant?
Company aside, the food was brilliant. Veal in a lemongrass soup, foie gras with strawberries and a balsamic glaze, grilled fish on tomatoes and fennel with a basil foam, bison with spring veg and a mushroom emulsion, a very nice cheese board and a chocolate and cardamom sorbet. And wine. Lots of very nice wine.
We like the Petit Manoir.
I’m an expert.
Sadly, I’ve been in meetings that went something like this in previous employment :)
Can apply to so many situations…
Now we’s cookin’ wiv gas!
I has gas! Can I get a what? what? We’re going to be able to bbq on the garcony from today. It’s had a good burn and a good cleaning, the grills have been seasoned, now all we need is some MEAT!
I married into a family of lushes
Went to coop to pick up a few bits for curry and spanakopita. As we’re going passed the wine aisle, Bean shouts out “Ooooh, more wine, hooray!”
Now that’s original
One of the cool, quirky aspects of Morges is that it has a large population of wild-ish ducks. As we were leaving for school / work this morning, we saw a pair of them just chillin’ on the lawn.