by loirevalleychateau | Jul 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Britons of a certain age – i.e. old enough to recall Demis Roussos discs and “Fab” lollies – will almost certainly remember the summer of 1976. My own memories of how temperatures in Southampton reached 35.6 °C on the 28th June, the sheer profusion of ladybirds, the...
by loirevalleychateau | Jun 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
The hired Austin A135 Princess that threw a piston while en route to the venue. The Best Man who told those stories of your National Service that you hoped were long-forgotten. And in the evening, Coronation Chicken and Baked Alaska – plus the hired local dance...
by loirevalleychateau | Jun 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
For those of us (all right, me) of certain imaginative persuasion, the phrase ‘meet me in the garden’ is redolent of any number of very bad crime films. It would be typically uttered sotto voce by Alan Tilvern or any other British B-feature “heavy” to one of his...
by loirevalleychateau | May 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
To understand the culinary revelation that are the cheeses of France to Britons of a certain vintage it is essential to understand life in the 1970s. Younger readers may not be able to appreciate the sheer awfulness of food culture in the UK at that time, an era when...
by loirevalleychateau | Apr 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
On the morning of the 21st April you may well hear the cry of ‘les cloches sont passes!’; the bells are passed! As many you already know, one of the most charming French traditions is that on Le Jeudi Saint (Maundy Thursday), the church bells fly to Rome to receive a...
by loirevalleychateau | Apr 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
There are times in this modern life when, to use the title of a certain Peter Sellers/Spike Milligan film, you feel as though the day’s routine encompasses running, jumping, but never standing still. And this why the blog will focus on the joys of lying in the garden...
