AS: Tea and biscuits and GIN, the British thread

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  • CathscatsCathscats Shipmate
    Yay, yay and more yay!
  • PriscillaPriscilla Shipmate
    And even more yay!
  • Gath fachGath fach Shipmate
    Hurrah!, I am so pleased for all three of you
  • DiomedesDiomedes Shipmate
    HOORAY!
  • bassobasso Shipmate
    BABY EN ROUGE IS IN THE BUILDING

    Hooray!!!
  • SarasaSarasa Shipmate
    What wonderful news LVER.
  • DormouseDormouse Shipmate
    Happy Dance for Bébé en Rouge & tout la famille!
  • BABY EN ROUGE IS IN THE BUILDING

    When I (briefly) studied French at the age of about nine, I had one line in the play our class presented: "Bienvenue!"

    So I now say to bébé en rouge -- BIENVENUE!!!

    :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
    (I really miss the twirling smiley!)

  • finelinefineline Kerygmania Host, 8th Day Host
    Very happy for the bébé en rouge, and la famille en rouge. 😊
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    BABY EN ROUGE IS IN THE BUILDING

    Wow and double wow!

    Well done all of you xx



  • PRAISE THE LORD, AND PASS THE CHEESE!!

    Wonderful news - obviously, everyone else who's been following your posts, LVER, is just as delighted. Prayers continue to ascend for you, Bebe, et Monsieur!
    :grin:

    IJ
  • MrsBeakyMrsBeaky Shipmate
    Great news indeed. Have fun together Famille en Rouge!
  • Good oh! Now the hard work begins.
  • There must be a special CHEESE with which to celebrate, no?

    Or a Fine WINE, perhaps?

    :grin:

    IJ
  • DafydDafyd Shipmate
    Congratulations to the En Rouges.
  • ferijenferijen Shipmate
    //waves flags, sings La Marseillaise badly, and generally has big smile on face// hoorah for Bébé en rouge!

    If he’d obeyed the memo, how many weeks old would he have been now?

    Returning to British theme: I am *so* over this heat wave. It is exacerbated by being six months pregnant but boy doing the school run (about 40 minutes walking) at 31° was unpleasant...
  • BABY EN ROUGE IS IN THE BUILDING
    Yay! This is wonderful news.

  • Congratulations to the en rouges - and well done to bébé for making it home. If he'd been born at the due date, wouldn't he be 2 weeks old now.

    @ferijen I am very over the heatwave, it feels like total spite that this year when I have to be so careful in the sun would be the year that we have a heat wave
  • @ferijen I am very over the heatwave, it feels like total spite that this year when I have to be so careful in the sun would be the year that we have a heat wave
    I'm with you there - thankfully I can take the thickly padded moon boot off when I'm not walking. Although in the past I've avoided the sun as much as I can, this year I have to keep my left wrist out of the sun while a blotch is being treated. So I have 2 reasons to be glad that I have no huge reason to be out in this - although my plan for early tomorrow is to spend a few hours on the allotment blitzing some weeds before they seed, as an attempt at damage limitation.
  • LuciaLucia Shipmate
    Excellent news LVER!
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    Whoo hoo! Congratulations from across the pond!
  • Wonderful! Happy dances and much applause from downunder.
  • Joan RaschJoan Rasch Shipmate Posts: 24
    to all les 🌹 🌹 🌹
    :smiley:
    * A cyclist on the information bikepath
    * AKA Fafnir the Thurifer
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Splendid news, welcome home to baby en rouge! :smiley:

    In other news, it's our 30th wedding anniversary today (2nd July), and we celebrated it with a v. nice dinner at Wolastoq Wharf, partly because it was almost the only good eatery open because of the Canada Day holiday.

    It was a good choice though - we started by sharing a huge spinach, fruit and goat-cheese salad, then D. had parmesan-crusted haddock with rice and veggies, and I had a delicious, but very rich, seafood risotto. Neither of us could finish our main courses, but they obligingly offered to box them up for us, so that's my lunch sorted for tomorrow.

    Then, because we told them it was our anniversary, they came with a complimentary pudding: a rich chocolate torte with cream and strawberries.

    I'd actually been looking forward to their lovely, un-messed-about-with crème brûlée, but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth ... :smiley:

    We'll just have to go back another time for the CB.
  • Congratulations, Piglet and D - it sounds gorgeous! Now here's to the next 30 years...

    Mrs. S, approaching her (and Mr. S's!) 44th
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Mrs S, you took the words right out of my mouth. Well done, piglet and D :relaxed:
  • I managed 20 years.

    10 with the first Mrs. BF, and another 10 with the second ditto....

    (But hearty congrats to all who have done so much better at this Marriage Lark than I!)

    IJ
  • Ooh, lovely. Congratulations all round and welcome home to Baby en Rouge.
  • Tree BeeTree Bee Shipmate
    So pleased for you LVER.
  • ThomasinaThomasina Shipmate
    HOORAY! YIPEE! and whatever the French word is!!!!
  • Formidable! (Marvelous!)
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited July 2018
    LOL!
    :lol:

    Merveilleux is another useful word...

    Yes, indeed...!

    LVER, do please keep us informed as to His Nibs' progress, especially insofar as his introduction (in God's Good Time) to CHEESE is concerned...

    IJ
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Thanks, all. Hope baby en rouge is settling in well with you (and his teddies).

    It's another absolute scorcher here today: 31° but feeling like 40. I just went out to put some veggie peelings in the bin (I'm making green SOUP for tomorrow's lunch), and I truly couldn't stay out there for more than a few seconds. :flushed:

    I've just looked out at the birdie bistro, and its latest patron appears to be a humungous pigeon-type bird, about twice the size of the mourning-doves. Not quite sure I want him to stay, especially if he scares off all the littler birds.
  • Polly PlummerPolly Plummer Shipmate Posts: 44
    Congratulations Piglet and D. (I love your posts, there's always so much food in them).

    And congratulations and three cheers to Famille en Rouge!
  • Piglet, humungous pigeon-type birds are very tasty, when casseroled in a red-WINE sauce, with herbs and vegetables (such as leeks, celery etc. to taste), and served with new potatoes, and a side salad...

    Or, alternatively, they can be put into a nice PIE.

    In which case, do not by any means omit the red WINE as sauce or accompaniment.

    IJ
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I don't know that I want him to go away quite that badly! I have had pigeon, and very nice it was too, but I couldn't bring myself to kill it.
    Congratulations Piglet and D. (I love your posts, there's always so much food in them).
    :mrgreen:

    D. was at a meeting today about a special service they're having in a couple of weeks, and I asked him how it went. "Oh, fine - we spent most of the time talking about food" was his reply.

    We are very partial to food - both eating and cooking it. :)

  • NenyaNenya Shipmate
    BABY EN ROUGE IS IN THE BUILDING

    Yay! Yay! Yippee!

    *sets off fireworks and opens bottle of celebratory beverage*

    So delighted. And, congratulations also to Piglet and Mr P.
  • Welcome home bébé en rouge, congratulations maman et papa en rouge.
  • BTW, piglet, I wasn't expecting you to murder dispatch your invading pigeons personally, but perhaps a suitably-equipped local hunter might oblige?
    :grimace:

    Flaky pastry, please, if you send over a virtual PIE, with leeks, carrots, celery, and mushrooms, in the red WINE gravy. Thank you! I'll sort out some nice new potatoes at this end.

    IJ
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I think the very idea has scared him off - I haven't seen him again! He would have made a very big PIE - he was the size of a medium duck.

    It's still enervatingly hot here: currently 33° and feeling like 37. We sang for a funeral this afternoon, and it really was uncomfortably sticky. The place was quite well filled, in part due to the presence of a male-voice choir (you can tell when one's approaching when you see a lot of octogenarians in matching ties with clefs on them).

    Apart from singing a Nunc Dimittis (we did Stanford in C) they probably didn't need us - the elderly gentlemen sang How great thou art, and we had a couple of hymns - but I think people often like to have the choir because it looks nice.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    LOL!
    :lol:

    Merveilleux is another useful word...

    Yes, indeed...!

    LVER, do please keep us informed as to His Nibs' progress, especially insofar as his introduction (in God's Good Time) to CHEESE is concerned...

    IJ

    I missed this before. It's an entertaining fact that in France one is advised to introduce blue CHEESE to children's diets early. No health reason, it's just so they acquire the taste. :sunglasses:
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    That makes sense - before they've developed enough teeth to say "ugh!" ... :mrgreen:

    Bliney, it's 'ot. Currently 35° and not cooling down any time soon, and the Cathedral band are having a barbecue this evening. At least the people hosting it have air-con in their house, so there should be a means of escape. It's actually part barbecue, part pot-luck, so we're bringing potato salad and a French stick (as well as WINE, obviously).

    Should be a good do - the band are a nice bunch, and not too holy ... :naughty:
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited July 2018
    LOL!
    :lol:

    Merveilleux is another useful word...

    Yes, indeed...!

    LVER, do please keep us informed as to His Nibs' progress, especially insofar as his introduction (in God's Good Time) to CHEESE is concerned...

    IJ

    I missed this before. It's an entertaining fact that in France one is advised to introduce blue CHEESE to children's diets early. No health reason, it's just so they acquire the taste. :sunglasses:

    O, what a sensible nation France appears to be!

    Yes, yes, I know - such is not always necessarily the case, but there are a few of us Brits who secretly regret the very narrow victory at Waterloo....

    Come on, you guys - you did it at Senlac in 1066.....and, as enny fule kno, French frites are immeasurably superior to UK chips...

    IJ

  • LOL!
    :lol:

    Merveilleux is another useful word...

    Yes, indeed...!

    LVER, do please keep us informed as to His Nibs' progress, especially insofar as his introduction (in God's Good Time) to CHEESE is concerned...

    IJ

    I missed this before. It's an entertaining fact that in France one is advised to introduce blue CHEESE to children's diets early. No health reason, it's just so they acquire the taste. :sunglasses:


    One of my sons took blue cheese sandwiches to school when he started, aged 5. After a few occasions, I received a note from school requesting that this practice stop as other 5 years old could not cope with it. I love and he still does.
  • Wesley JWesley J Shipmate
    Whaddya mean, Loth, they 'could not cope with it'? In what what way? I'm really curious now! :)
  • Other 5 year olds are likely to complain about the 'gusting smell of foods such as runny brie, blue cheese and garlic in my experience. I've almost certainly sinned by sending my offspring in with all or most of these at some stage. Anything odd or different in lunchboxes tends to attract adverse comment. Although I have wondered if it's the children or the dinner ladies who are.most upset.
  • yohan300yohan300 Shipmate
    edited July 2018
    We had a cheeses tasting session once in primary school. The teacher said to a load of seven year olds "if you really don't like it, you can spit it out!" So it was no surprise when most of the class delightedly found the cheeses disgusting and took great pleasure in the rare opportunity to engage in some adult-sanctioned food spitting. Since that day I swore off blue cheese and brie until I was an adult, for no particular reason other than "everyone knows they are horrible". Perhaps a different approach would have had the class rise to the challenge of trying something new and liking it.
  • Wesley JWesley J Shipmate
    Well, that's cheesism, in my book. The world should be more tolerant! (I've had some very lovely French Roquefort the other day. Mmh! - No five-year-olds nearby, though.)

    In related news, myself, I have been victim of fishism. Can't eat a tin of sardines in peace, can we! :disappointed:

    Bland food is just too bland. Boring. Give us stucture and texture and taste.
  • Wesley J wrote: »
    Whaddya mean, Loth, they 'could not cope with it'? In what what way? I'm really curious now! :)
    . As. CK said, they others hated the smell.

  • As one who is inordinately fond of all sorts of CHEESE, I find this concept of 'I don't like the smell' hard to comprehend.

    Perhaps today's children are Wimps and Wusses?

    Sadly, alas, cheeseism and fishism are not uncommon (I love sardines, pilchards, and mackerel - preferably on TOAST, with lots of pepper and vinegar).

    Having said all that, I do recall coming across a sort of Austrian mountain CHEESE (it was known locally as Stinkkaese, or 'smelly cheese') which really did pong.

    Mrs. BF and I were travelling one day into Innsbruck on a rush-hour bus (as you do), when we became aware of an Awful Odour. We duly checked the soles of our shoes, in case we'd trodden in anything unpleasant (let the reader understand), but realised eventually that it was the CHEESE rolls in our bag, which we had bought from the local bakery about half-an-hour before. The locals on the bus took no notice of the Awful Odour at all, of course.

    We subsequently found that this CHEESE (which was delicious, once you got past the Awful Odour) went down very well with vintage PORT.

    Yes, a visit to Portugal to obtain said vintage PORT was necessary...
    :sweat_smile:

    IJ
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