Category: Visual
-
Dining out: an unusual experience.
Newell and Jeannette Johnson undertook a mission to introduce me to some of the good restaurants in Forcalquier. They started lasted night with “In Vinoâ€. This restaurant is a block below Credit Agricole. We went down about 40 steps to get in and found the restaurant is a large vaulted room, open plan so the…
-
October Photos
Strange e mail  Veg, bought in Sunday market  Veg bougth sunday market  notive on Mairie glass door  Computer pamphlet left in post box  Reverse side pamphlet Tom Notice they say very reasonable prices and ask for E400 for creating web site. Â
-
Pastry. My considered recipe.
My considered recipe for pastry Flour 9 oz. Butter non salted 5 oz. I egg 2 Desert spoons cold water. Use plain white flour. English flour does not need sieving. Leave butter out of fridge until it is not vry hard. Mix butter into flour in food processor until it is the proverbial bread crumbs.…
-
Barbarossa & The Crusades
Tuesday 29 May 1945 By today my will power is defeated. I lay in bed when I should have been up for early Mass. I gave in a nasty exercise on turning parts of Hannibal and Epaminondas into ‘oratio obliqua”. Betty had practically done it for me the night before in the library. Eileen Betty’s…
-
1945 Diary continued
Peter thinks the present committee is a good one and JG is an excellent man but he has not quite enough initiative. Apparently some people have been saying that Peter wanted all the power in the Club and have not appreciated all his work. too bad! Peter really has been splendid giving every thing for…