Showing posts with label cheese board. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheese board. Show all posts

Monday, October 1, 2018

01/11/2018 Another new month!

Maximum temperature today 17C, minimum 9C.  Dry; 20km/h North-easterly chilly winds with up to 44 km/h gusts. 

I am really not keeping up with blogging at present, I seem to be busy, and I am also not sleeping well which make me very ratty and miserable!!!  

We had the chimney cleaned this past week...

Always such a happy man.  Sadly he is now retired, but he has said he will help us out while the body is still willing ...

It is at the highest part of our house.

Great tits are returning to the garden for winter, they know there is usually food waiting for them...

as above. (Parus major).

Mrs House sparrow cooling down. (Passer domesticus).

The garden supply is dwindling but still more than enough for the two of us....

As above.

Out to lunch last Thursday - what a cheese board 😊



My bird blog
has been updated HERE

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Trying out a new restaurant with a great recommendation.

Maximum temperature today 25C, minimum 11C.    Dry; 5km/h North Easterly winds with up to 17 km/h gusts.

Unfortunately, their street address on all the mapping websites was 'up the creek' and we could not track down any coordinates. However, we were duly very impressed when we managed to locate it after a short detour through a nearby village with a similar name.  I now have it in the car satnav with the correct details!!

The restaurant is called the Bouton D'or (buttercup) (see the above arrow) and it is in the village of Saint-Romain-en-Charroux. This village is called Saint Romain, and there is another place down the road called Charroux, photos from which I will publish tomorrow. For anyone who would like to take a trip to this Vienne village, the coordinates are N 46⁰ 13' 17. 63"  E 0⁰ 21' 55. 58"

Bouton D'or from the outside...

and inside, with the owner waving his arms around, telling a table full of women some funny story!  We were one of the first arrivals, despite being delayed on our detour.  The place filled up soon afterwards.

The piano, we gather, is often in use by someone or another.  I am not sorry it was quiet today, as we were sitting right next to it!

The special Sunday menu; weekday meals are simpler, and considerably cheaper.

Amuse-bouche.

Seafood cassolette.

Duck (apparently 3 x cooked in different ways, so the owner informed us) with mashed potato, mushrooms and a salad.  The duck, from Sarlat in the Dordogne, was delicious and very tender.

The cheese board.  David and Monica, eat your heart out 😉

Dessert.

The church of St Romain right next door.

Nigel spotted this very old and rusty sign for Ricard on a house wall....

and this one, which he managed to work out was for a fertiliser.



N.B. My new bird blog is updated  HERE 
Part 7 of the birds I saw last year in Africa.