by loirevalleychateau | Jul 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
It is good to be back. Over the past weeks, I have been spending my time marvelling at the Hades that is British daytime television, re-reading novels, and watching box-sets. For that reason, Venetta for the Saint will forever remain in my memory, not least because of...
by loirevalleychateau | May 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today, I have been mostly considering The Bad Food Guide – and one gem of a story found therein. For those unfamiliar with one of the great tomes of British culinary history, it was authored by Derek Cooper and published in 1967 – a time when many regarded a...
by loirevalleychateau | Apr 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Or, what am I most looking forward to once I am able to travel again? My answers may surprise you, but they are mine own… 1) The cars. The gentle reader may have noticed that I am somewhat of a motor-vehicle fanatic. The days of the Renault 4CV, the Citroën DS19, the...
by loirevalleychateau | Mar 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
At this time, I thought this poem seemed apt. God Knows, also known as The Gate of the Year was written by Minnie Louise Haskins and famously broadcast by HM King George VI as part of his 1939 Christmas broadcast: And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the...
by loirevalleychateau | Mar 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am writing this blog on St. David’s Day, a time of the year where there is a palpable sense of renewal. It is not merely the quality of the light and how the evenings are longer but also the changes in the flora and the fauna. The summer feels somewhat closer and...
by loirevalleychateau | Feb 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ah, Valentine’s Day – cards, heart-shaped chocolates with strawberry fondant centres and various ballads emanating from the local radio station. At least these seem to be the standard British practices on the 14th February, but at Chateau de Bois Giraud you are...
