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LOVE all your postcards!!!!
When I say tiny, I mean tiny. There's a couple of restaurants and a cafe ... trade is largely from the canal travellers ... and the village shop is on a barge. There's very little of the village at all.
When I see architecture like shown in Linda's post cards it always makes me wonder how on earth they built that. I've done a few building projects, but straight up and down and sideways, and even though it's supposed to be 'straight' sometimes it leans a bit. And even though I measured, my 4x8 pieces of plywood don't match up exactly with the wood stringers. And here we have builders in the olden days building circular things out of bricks and stone and they come out perfect. I have mod cons and tools. They used very primitive tools. I had ladders and today we have mechanical lifts. They built very tall structures with no mechanical help to get them up to the top of their structure. I would love to be able to go back in time and watch someone build, for example, a medieval castle.
@Yvonne G I saw a television programme about Guédelon where they're attempting to build a chateau using medieval techniques. I haven't been there... it's on the list
Guédelon website (English version) http://www.guedelon.fr/en/
Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guédelon_Castle
Partly down to slave labour, or similar. If a few peasants got squashed doing something, or fell off somewhere they'd never be allowed to be today, no matter, there were plenty more where they came from And sometimes they took decades to build, added to for centuries and then restored
They began the restoration of Carcasone in 1853 the architect died in 1879 and work continued for years from his drawings.
FESTIVAL GOERS ! ! !
Save money on expensive tickets to open-air festivals next summer.
Simply put up a tent in your own back garden, pee on the side of it, and steal your own shoes.
Save money on expensive tickets to open-air festivals next summer.
Simply put up a tent in your own back garden, pee on the side of it, and steal your own shoes.
Two ounces is not much. It is less than a smallish hen's egg weighs. Two MwMs is even less. About the same as a small grape. But, you see, the important thing in Mr Adam's plan was to make sure that the new tortoise was bigger than Alfie but only a tiny bit bigger. The difference had to be so small that Mrs wifey wouldn't notice it.
Page 31
Page 31
That's going to be a beauty!
Page 31 - WALDO! The Tidge is too big to be step two in the project, no?
WOW!!!!
Fascinating!!!
Points!
Yes, sadly Tidgy is rejected at this point for being much too big.
Tortoise No. 2 will appear tomorrow................
Ah! You beat me to it!
You've got sharp eyes!!!
Just lurking at the right time.Ah! You beat me to it!
I've been very sad and lonely in here tonight.
But never mind, eh?
It's September!
Tidgy's month on the calendar!
And my birthday this monthas well!
Happy September, Roommates.
But never mind, eh?
It's September!
Tidgy's month on the calendar!
And my birthday this monthas well!
Happy September, Roommates.
Good morning folks. It has been unusually quiet in the CDR overnight.
Today JoesDad and I celebrate our 27th wedding anniversary with packing to leave here tomorrow, finishing off the cheese supply at lunch and a meal in the village restaurant this evening.
Today JoesDad and I celebrate our 27th wedding anniversary with packing to leave here tomorrow, finishing off the cheese supply at lunch and a meal in the village restaurant this evening.
Good morning folks. It has been unusually quiet in the CDR overnight.
Today JoesDad and I celebrate our 27th wedding anniversary with packing to leave here tomorrow, finishing off the cheese supply at lunch and a meal in the village restaurant this evening.
Enjoy and have fun today !
Go luckily towards the next 27 years
I've been very sad and lonely in here tonight.
But never mind, eh?
It's September!
Tidgy's month on the calendar!
And my birthday this monthas well!
Happy September, Roommates.
