Going swimming?

Beware of the Weever fish!

Beware of a little sandy coloured fish that lives in the English Channel. It spends most of the time actually buried under the sea bed with just its venomous dorsal fin showing above the sandy bottom. On the rare occasions when it is plentiful, rows of erect black triangles decorate the sandy floor of the sea bed;

Woe betide a bather who steps upon a buried fish. The pain is usually described as excruciating as the spines embed into the human flesh and discharge their venom. The pain is at its most intense for the first two hours when the foot goes red and swells up and is then it feels numb until the following day with irritation and pain that may last for up to two weeks. Sometimes, the spine breaks off in the foot and it will cause discomfort until it is removed.

http://www.glaucus.org.uk/weever2.htm

Country and Western.

An excellent evening at Marcille Robert, a country music evening, a bit of a warm up to the main event in Bain de Bretagne later in August.

The World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards

The World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards for 2010, only 3 UK restaurants in the top 50, only one in the top, well, 3, The Fat duck, with Chef Heston Bluementhol,
Fancy trying there taster Menu, only £150 a head
http://www.theworlds50best.com/awards/1-50-winners

One hundred and fifty pounds

Please allow 4 hours for this menu

• LIME GROVE
  • Nitro Poached Green Tea and Lime Mousse
• RED CABBAGE GAZPACHO
  • Pommery Grain Mustard Ice Cream
• JELLY OF QUAIL, CRAYFISH CREAM
  • Chicken Liver Parfait, Oak Moss and Truffle Toast
• SNAIL PORRIDGE
  • Jabugo Ham, Shaved Fennel
• ROAST FOIE GRAS
  • Rhubarb, Braised Konbu and Crab Biscuit

• MOCK TURTLE SOUP (c.1850)
  • "Mad Hatter Tea"
• "SOUND OF THE SEA"
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• SALMON POACHED IN LIQUORICE
  • Artichokes, Vanilla Mayonnaise, Golden Trout Roe and Manni Olive Oil
• POWDERED ANJOU PIGEON (c.1720)
  • Blood Pudding and Confit of Umbles

• TAFFETY TART (c.1660)
  • Caramelized Apple, Fennel, Rose and Candied Lemon
• THE "BFG"
  • Kirsch Ice Cream and the smell of the Black Forest
• WHISK(E)Y WINE GUMS
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• "LIKE A KID IN A SWEET SHOP"

Maybe wash it down with a bottle of 1995 Krug, Blanc de Noir, Clos d'Ambonnay only £3400

An optional 12.5% service charge will be added to your bill. The menu can be adapted for most dietary requirements, please notify the reservations department of any special requests upon making a reservation.

Bee's

Coming soon

Tonight is the country night at Marcille Robert, I should be posting photographs tomorrow.

The next "coming soon" is Sixt sur Aff Fete
I just got back from Sixt, I've been down to see how the park is looking and how much has been done in preparation for next week.

Rosies Gateaux au Thon

Gateaux au Thon

Ingredients: (serves 4):
300 g canned tuna
100 g grated cheese
100 g flour
3 eggs
10 cl milk
10 cl of olive oil
1 package levure (baking powder)
Salt and pepper
Chopped Parsley


Drain the tuna and crumble it coarsely.
Place flour in a bowl, Mix in the eggs , milk and oil
Mix in the Levure, tuna, grated cheese and parsley. Salt and pepper.
Grease and flour a loaf pan and put the cake mix in
Cook at 200c for 40 - 50 min






If I had Pistachios available I would have added them. A lovely savoury cake. Wednesday I will make a similar cake with ham and onion instead of the tuna. I will remember this time to take some photographs as I go. Let me know how yours turns out, or any changes you make.

Christmas is coming

I know, its only just summer but I bought these today.

Hedgehogs

About 4 am this morning there was a terrible commotion in one of the chicken pens, I jumped out of bed quickly sending the dogs out fearing a fox was enjoying a free breakfast. I raced to find my wellies and a torch, two of the dogs came back though looking very confused. but Lucy stayed outside the Bantam chicken house barking, I quickly raced to turn of the electric fence and went to investigate, The baby chickens had come out through a small gap in the door and the mothers were going frantic, I opened the door and there was a hedgehog, now I know hedgehogs will eat eggs but I don't know that they eat baby chicks, but there was a dead baby in the house with a bite taken out of the back of its neck.I put Lucy in the house went back down and the hedgehog was still there so I shooed him on, hopefully he wont return tonight.

Just a small one for me please

Absinthe could be legalised in France after 100-year ban

Absinthe, the mind-bending green spirit said to have inspired Vincent van Gogh, could be legalised in France almost a century after being deemed a public menace.

Pablo Picasso's portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, also known as The Absinthe Drinker Photo: PA

The drink's powers were notorious in late 19th-Century Paris among bohemian artists and writers. Many swore it expanded consciousness and enhanced creativity, dubbing it the Green Fairy.

Van Gogh is said to have created Starry Night under its influence and it has been suggested it played a part in him cutting off one of his ears.

Read more here Daily Telegraph.

2 Cooks and a Cabbage.

What ever happened to health and safety?

Wartime Kitchen and Garden

I will post one of these every now and then, but in no particular order as this one interested me first.

Lazy

Keefs Birthday party

Off out now to Keef's birthday party, where we will all sit at watch the football.

No pass the parcel, no musical chairs and the England goalkeeper playing his own version of blind mans bluff. But a pleasant evening none the less and the weather behaved . However the new chickens we bought for Keefs present have escaped, as yet no news as to if they have been found. A reward has been offered for there safe return, although its advised not to approach the pair, but to call Keef so he can collect them and pay you your reward.

New babies at Half Acre

Arthur

And Lewis

Ive been shopping

First stop Lidl, seems a bit quiet, I wish Paul would cheer up, what's wrong with him?


A few bottles of wine.

Crisps, no I'm not buying them, far to big.

Intermarche Salad and vegetable

Black Beauty Burgers. No, I would never buy horse meat.

Mmmmm Smoked hams, saucisson and salamis.

Chicken in Basque sauce, Yummy, stuffed aubergines.

Poitrine of pork,

Why are the checkouts so quiet?

Sold out of mussels, shame.

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Edit.
Well I didn't know that the World cup had started!!