COLD DARK ROOM

[Bee62]

Hi Bee!

I'm with you on this one.

Adam, don't keep them as a pair: Get a third one instead and keep them as a group. You know you want to.

Hello Lena,

a group of tortoises is the best. A biiiiiiigggggg group ....

Do you have already settled in in Denmark ?

 

[Bee62]

Student here!
See you later.

Teach your student well !
See you later.

 

[Gillian M]

Good morning, Linda.
Getting hotter here, again.
Much baaing to be heard today over the city. Straw sellers, knife sharpeners and charcoal vendors abound.
Tomorrow id the Eid.
Have a lovely day.

Hi Adam.

And all of you as well.

 

[Gillian M]

I want about fifty.
But wifey would kill me.

Make the number 100 while you're at it.

 

[Gillian M]

Student here!
See you later.

Speak later.

 

[Gillian M]

Hello, Jane.
SPLAT.
Special Precious Little Acquired Tortoise.
I like it.

I do to, I must admit.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Make the number 100 while you're at it.

May as well.
Good afternoon, Gillian.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Teach your student well !
See you later.

Back now!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

RACEHORSES ! ! !
Try rolling over on your backs every now and then.
That might stop those angry little men from hitting you with sticks all the time.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Off out to play in the sun with Tidgy.
And try to break it to her gently that she is not the only tortoise in the country.

 

[JoesMum]

Off out to play in the sun with Tidgy.
And try to break it to her gently that she is not the only tortoise in the country.

Oh dear. I hope we don't get too many histrionics from the little diva. I have visions of a Miss Piggy style sulk

 

[JoesMum]

Good evening all.

So today we went to Carcassonne which is closer to Spain than Paris. The old town had to be extremely well fortified as Spanish, French, Catalans and various religious parties have fought over it through history.

What we see now is the medieval town as restored in the 1880s. I like it, although it does feel a bit Disney in places.

The weather was cold, damp (the rain never got going properly) and windy, but we're Brits and used to that so it wasn't much of a problem. It also gave us an excuse to have Cassoulet for lunch - a hearty stew/casserole from this area made from white haricot beans and duck that traditionally also contains a sausage and a piece of pork. It's yummy, very filling and probably not something you'd want when the temperature was 35C. Luckily it was 18C max today - colder with windchill.

Postcards:

 

[JoesMum]

And then we drove to a tiny village called Le Somail on the Canal du Midi. Years ago, we stayed in a house there when the children were small and we were curious.


The building to the right of the bridge is the church.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Oh dear. I hope we don't get too many histrionics from the little diva. I have visions of a Miss Piggy style sulk

I don't think she was listening to me.
No reaction at all.

 

[Moozillion]

And then we drove to a tiny village called Le Somail on the Canal du Midi. Years ago, we stayed in a house there when the children were small and we were curious.

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LOVE all your postcards!!!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good evening all.

So today we went to Carcassonne which is closer to Spain than Paris. The old town had to be extremely well fortified as Spanish, French, Catalans and various religious parties have fought over it through history.

What we see now is the medieval town as restored in the 1880s. I like it, although it does feel a bit Disney in places.

The weather was cold, damp (the rain never got going properly) and windy, but we're Brits and used to that so it wasn't much of a problem. It also gave us an excuse to have Cassoulet for lunch - a hearty stew/casserole from this area made from white haricot beans and duck that traditionally also contains a sausage and a piece of pork. It's yummy, very filling and probably not something you'd want when the temperature was 35C. Luckily it was 18C max today - colder with windchill.

Postcards:
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Have been here, loved it.
And the book I mentioned before was set largely here in 1209 and the modern day.
Most lovely.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And then we drove to a tiny village called Le Somail on the Canal du Midi. Years ago, we stayed in a house there when the children were small and we were curious.

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The building to the right of the bridge is the church.
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Very, very pretty.
Don't think I've been here, certainly can't remember it.
A beautiful area.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

LOVE all your postcards!!!!

Good afternoon, Moozillion.

 

[JoesMum]

Have been here, loved it.
And the book I mentioned before was set largely here in 1209 and the modern day.
Most lovely.

I must have missed that post

Which book?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I must have missed that post

Which book?

"Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse. About the crusade against the Christian heretics.
I am now reading her book, "Sepulchre" which is related, but not a sequel, this is set in the same area in 1891 and the present day and about tarot cards or something, tell you later !