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So the day the UK Parliamentary election was announced I wrote to the Labour, Conservative, Liberal and Green candidates in Camberwell and Peckham, the constituency where I get to vote, asking: I am a UK elector living in France, and I will be voting in your constituency in the forthcoming general election by postal vote.I…
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So I wrote to the BBC asking how they propose to make available the Dear Leader televised debates to ex-pats abroad, since we can still vote in the UK and, obviously, want to make informed decisions. A process which took half an hour clicking around their website to find an actual way to send in…
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I keep promising both myself and a bunch of more important people to write to them, get back to them, post something here, reply to that e-mail…you get the idea. I don’t write nearly as much as I’d like to these days. In fact that’s an exaggeration, I often don’t write a single word from…
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I started on June 8 as Second de Cuisine (Sous Chef in some parlances but that’s not the same thing in French) at the Karousel restaurant of the Kyriad hotel in Lunel, over in the Hérault department. It is not a gastronomic restaurant like those I’ve worked in previously; in France it’s what is known…
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[ad#standard] I recently re-read George Orwell’s ‘Down and Out in Paris and London‘ – and then re-lived it over an eight-day week in a similar Big Hotel in a town near here. Really, all you need to do to change from Orwell’s time to modern times is to give everyone a mobile telephone and you’re…
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I should have noted this at the time: my friend and fellow online Daynoter Bo Leuf has died. RIP Bo, I will miss your wisdom and wit.
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How to be a cook/patissier
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What horses do when travelling This is what horsed do when they’re traveling. You thought they were looking out of the windows – in fact, the windows are only there so they can see their sheet music, they pass their time playing the piano.
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…as Chef de Cuisine (OK, I only have a commis and half a plongeur but hey, what’s in a name?) at À Côté in the Place aux Herbes in Uzes. It’s called À Côté because it’s next door to l’Oustal, the first restaurant owned by À Côté’s proprietaires. We do three salad/starter plates (soon to…
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