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Getting in touch with my feminine side!
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Large video file follows. Scarlett playing on the sofa
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Our internet connection is down, has been for the past couple of weeks and probably will be for another week or so. And at the same time I’ve been having e-mail problems so, although I can now read emails and reply on my shiny new iPhone I’ve probably missed a fair few over the past…
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[ad#standard] More omelets this morning, followed by an ‘examen blanc’ this afternoon. ‘Blanc’ as in ‘pretend’ – so a ‘mariage blanc’ is a fake marriage undertaken for the purposes of gaining French citizenship, a ‘nuit blanc’ is a sleepless night and so on. The omelets are interesting because we get to use poitrine salée, salted…
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[ad#standard] Normally we do a couple of recipes a week at school. Today, we do five, just to keep ourselves busy: Gnocci à la Parisienne, Millefeuilles, beignets de pommes, omelettes and pintadeau rôti sur canapé. Lots of interesting stuff there. Parisian gnocci are potatoes mashed, mixed with choux pastry batter and then deep-fried in churro-length…
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[ad#standard] Delphine drives me to school this morning. I’m not up to cycling at the moment, so she drops me off on her way to work and I’ll get the bus home this evening. I apologise to Chef for missing last week and he checks to make sure I’ve been given the recipes they worked…
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Week 20: Pulling a sickie Today, I should have been cooking a Genoise cake, making my own noodles and filleting trout to cook in red wine. Instead, I spent it being poorly. Properly ‘You should really go to hospital’ poorly. Back in 1997 when we were first looking for a house to buy in the…
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My very old friend Simon Grosset – we’ve known each other since 1980 when we met at the offices of the London Student newspaper, he as a photographer and I as a reporter – has taken some stunningly brilliant photos of our wedding last weekend. http://www.q-photography.co.uk/CDprints/ It does help that he’s a professional wedding photographer…
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A microbe, our teacher tells us in our ‘Hygiene’ class today, is an infinitely small living being visible only through a microscope. I want to tell her that anything that is ‘infinitely’ small is, by definition, not visible through anything, let alone a microscope, but desist. No one likes to be corrected by someone older…
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French bureaucracy is complicated for a number of reasons, not least the fact that it’s charged with keeping French bureaucracy going. In the UK, 11% of the workforce works for the government in one capacity or another – policemen, nurses, bureaucrats, whatever. In France, the percentage is 24%. Twenty-four percent! A quarter of the workforce…
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