Jane Maylin🍇🍷

Yes it's awful.

It got very close in the night 😬. Lots of firefighters in the village but seems better this morning now the wind has dropped. Sadly it has been reported that someone died in another village.

😁

Not very comfortable, no

DIRECT. Incendie dans l’Aude : déjà 11 100 hectares parcourus dans les Corbières et 1 500 pompiers mobilisés, 2 500 foyers privés d'électricité Un violent incendie sévit ce mardi 5 août dans l’Aude, dans un secteur entre Ribaute, Lagrasse et Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse. Malgré l’intervention de très nombreux moyens aériens et au sol, le fe...

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Yes. 10,000 hectares now 😔. The smell is terrible.. wind carrying it to the west of the village but other villages have been evacuated. It's a disaster.

They have a shop in Tokyo next time you're there 😉

Here we go again.

Yes, the workshop was almost abandoned before it was taken over by a local couple who discovered hundreds of old patterns which they revived and expanded, and developed a whole range of products. It was a great success. They are superb quality, now classified 'living heritage'.

..table set for my mother, and on her death it came back to me, so it is a particularly treasured possession.

NAPPES Toiles du Soleil

The Toiles du Soleil originally made traditional striped Catalan espadrilles in their workshop in Saint Laurent de Cerdans. They developed a range of fabrics for tablecloths and furnishings with designs named after the local villages. I bought my ted and yellow.. share.google/q9168FoQ1w4K...

White plate with a whole grilled sea bream, some steamed rice and a little homemade ratatouille. Bowl of green salad. Glass of white wine. Striped cloth from Les Toiles du Soleil.

Sometimes the simplest things are the best

Yes, a good friend highly recommended it.

I've been meaning to go for ages. Know Perelada, but keen to 'experience' the winery.

Striking. But if I didn't know the wine I wouldn't be tempted by it.

"The container not the content" Really?

I think Oddbins can be justly proud of inspiring a whole generation of wine drinkers.

And there was me thinking you were a pacifist

When I left London the removal men gouged a great chunk out of my hallway. I got them to pay for it... eventually.

Well you can't expect them to lug TWO mattresses upstairs in 40°. Be reasonable 😆

Yes but, the label

Mmm, less than ideal.

You can unclench your fists now.

Hoping for a bit of nominative determinism

You could always share a beer with your delivery driver?

Ooo, industrial espionage in the wine world. Maybe they shouldn't have employed the daughter of their main competitor??

Try not to scream

Last time I was taken to lunch in an English pub it was a truly miserable experience. So far removed from the pubs I knew and loved.

Yes. Though I suspect he cares a bit more about the winemaking than he lets on.

Yes totally brilliant