I made a small timber log store with a tiled roof but most are store under a large tarpaulin which may not be such a good idea. I will soon be taking down a converted office on my site to build a new house for myself. Hopefully I can use the old timber to make a much larger wood store for the wood burners. It makes such a difference when the logs are fairly dry.
yes.... ours are seasoning out in the opening against a fence with a tarpaulin just along the top.....
Today I decided that my large wheelbarrow had yet another tyre puncture and if I put another patch on it there would be more patch than inner tube. Doing a search on the Internet I find that I can order a new tyre and tube from England cheaper than I can buy just a tube here in store, and that includes postage. The cost via French Internet sites is also twice the price of one sent across the Channel. Within an hour of placing an order I received an e-mail to say it had been despatched. The only problem I see now is one of smell. A number of people who had bought a similar item reported that you should not keep it in the house for a number of days until the smell had died down. Will Mme La Poste refuse to have it in her van and deliver it to my outpost.
Good morning all from a dry and mild Weston-super-Mare. Bad weather on way from storm Abigail Have a good day!
Yet another super day here. No wind, warm, and constant sunshine. Tonight I had an occasional visit to the Fish et Frites van where I can buy traditional English fish and chips when it comes here twice a month. It stops in one of the local village squares and has an arrangement with the Café des Sports. who supply the electricity, and in return many customers from the van go into the bar for a few drinks while they eat their meal in there. The French customers seem to like the food, especially mushy peas and curry sauce.
No, I think that one is different. There are several around, some of them getting supplies from my man.
Fish = yes: chips = yes: mushy peas = yes: curry sauce = in the context of fish and chips like stepping into a different universe...
French curry is so mild that even I who cannot stand the smell can tolerate it. Friends have just returned from a three week holiday in India and despite their love of curry found that three meals a day with it, including breakfast, was too much.
The French don't like their curry very spicy, they also dislike english mustard as well, much too strong for them. We had a daughter of French friends staying with us last year, we introduced her to branston pickle which she absolutely loved. Entente cordiale.
I'm not saying I dislike curry, The food in Southern India and Sri Lanka is as good as I've eaten anywhere. But curry sauce, however mild, doesn't belong with fish, chips and mushy peas any more than pig's liver is a pleasant accompaniment to ice cream! Though having said that, no doubt a chef somewhere serves them up together...
I never liked the idea of fruit with meat but must say the Moroccans do it beautifully. I am with you on curry sauce though!
No doubt the ash was meant to be the product of burning some exotic tree found only on the upper slopes of an extinct volcano in the Soloman Islands. But then who knows what the waitress got up to out in the kitchen?
