tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572597865932195411.post6515810882480214417..comments2023-06-28T05:46:57.772-07:00Comments on The Cyber Tour Guide: French Markets, in Abingdon and in CallacJuliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365391659955928592noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572597865932195411.post-19019809062718418362016-09-21T08:42:11.639-07:002016-09-21T08:42:11.639-07:00Loved reading your blog, I found it totally by acc...Loved reading your blog, I found it totally by accident. <br /><br />flutterbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10208340172231133524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572597865932195411.post-43521201954980470842013-04-16T10:46:49.141-07:002013-04-16T10:46:49.141-07:00Are you close to Abingdon?
What a small world it i...Are you close to Abingdon?<br />What a small world it is! Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365391659955928592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572597865932195411.post-35808736748093985442013-04-16T00:19:21.384-07:002013-04-16T00:19:21.384-07:00Thank you for an enjoyable shopping trip. I will t...Thank you for an enjoyable shopping trip. I will track down that place in Abingdon, too. Good luck with the new venture.Relatively Retiringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07648407316162715318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572597865932195411.post-68494261730563595002013-04-14T10:21:50.719-07:002013-04-14T10:21:50.719-07:00Indeed, I was working my way from langoustines to ...Indeed, I was working my way from langoustines to a live lobster but left before reaching that point. And yes, they do move around disconcertingly when popped in the pot, although I was assured that that was due to 'air in the shells'. I chose to believe it. <br /><br />Yes, I couldn't eat an animal that I'd raised and nurtured, I'd never make a good farmer.<br /><br />Thank you and the teaching was great fun, it took me back to the hours I spent studying French and Italian at evening classes. Happily, my learner was pronouncing her th's really well by the end of the lesson, so hard for non-English speakers isn't it@ Like me trying to ask for milles feuilles in France! Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365391659955928592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572597865932195411.post-36938718908904453382013-04-14T07:19:46.766-07:002013-04-14T07:19:46.766-07:00Mmm, bivalve shellfish I can throw into boiling wa...Mmm, bivalve shellfish I can throw into boiling water without turning a hair, but of course langoustines do have faces on, and the way they wave their little arms about does bring them rather too close to the vertebrate, even though they aren't. I'm rarely tempted by langoustine anyway, as I never seem to be able to get them out of their carapaces without getting one of their spines painfully lodged under my thumb nail. Leclerc the other day had sea urchins, but I'd only try those if someone else prepared them.<br /><br />A family whose daughter I teach had a cute and much loved lop-eared long-haired bunny which lived in luxury hutch in the porch, and over which many tears were shed when it died, and a large extended family of brown ones just across in the vegetable patch which were destined for stew. It seemed odd but then it occurred to me that we had hens for pets and regularly roasted and ate one of their kindred (always Label Rouge, elevé en plein air etc of course) at the weekend. Though not one we'd known personally I suppose.<br /><br />The donkey sausage is usually clearly labelled as such; it seems to be a positive selling point rather than something they're trying to sneakily pass off...<br /><br />Nice post. Hope the English teaching is fruitful!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com