This is even shorter than usual and credit needs to be shared with G in Nantes. Here in Horsham we've just gone to the blue-topped bins for recycling, where everything gets chucked in and it gets sorted at the depot.
The council info said that house numbers needed to be put on them. Fair enough, A mission to town to get some fancy self-adhesive ones. Except they had sold out. Everyone was doing the same thing. Although oddly, they still had some '1's and a few '0's. That's when I had the idea, we'd do it in binary, i.e. 11010 or similar.
Or dust-binary!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Hundred Years War
En route to the Vendee at Easter, we stayed at a B&B near Fougeres. Fougeres has a massive castle, constructed at the time of the Hundred Years War. At that time, it seems that marauding hordes of Brits caused general trouble and the locals had to protect themselves. I did read a book on the topic but it was so confusing as to what went on, I was not much the wiser. I expect after a hundred years they had probably lost the plot too.
We had a very civilised meal, delicacies such as home-smoked ham and bright green nettle soup. Our host had been a baker in a town and had sought a different life in the country. We were in a restored barn. 'Lovely building', I said in my best French. 'Goes back way into history' he said, 'Built by the English!'
We had a very civilised meal, delicacies such as home-smoked ham and bright green nettle soup. Our host had been a baker in a town and had sought a different life in the country. We were in a restored barn. 'Lovely building', I said in my best French. 'Goes back way into history' he said, 'Built by the English!'
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Ferrari Day
I consider myself as passionate about the environment, not particularly bothered about possessions, very concerned about safety and generally unworried about status. And yes, I read The Guardian. So, what to make of Ferrari Day in Horsham, with, I think, over 60 of the noisy, guzzly monsters parked in town yesterday to admire.
Wildly impracticable - one of them had a top speed of 206mph- and clearly unsuitable for the Tesco run (although the Co-op run would be more my thing). They even exhibit a remarkable lack of variety in appearance, being mainly exactly the same shade of red. And cream seats - how practical is that?
WHAT WONDERFUL MACHINES! How can I get one! Should I remortgage the house?
Wildly impracticable - one of them had a top speed of 206mph- and clearly unsuitable for the Tesco run (although the Co-op run would be more my thing). They even exhibit a remarkable lack of variety in appearance, being mainly exactly the same shade of red. And cream seats - how practical is that?
WHAT WONDERFUL MACHINES! How can I get one! Should I remortgage the house?
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