The Chateau Diaries #175 The lonely chair is where Philip sits after being Potty's fluffer

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Ok, there’s now way that all of the metalwork in the chateau has been painted black. We saw one railing with black paint over lots of old chunky rust. Still, the black looks much better thank the rusty cream color. What Stephanie meant to say to Mummy was, “Almost all of the metal work in this room has been painted black. Look how we left the chunky rust as it was original to the chateau.”
 
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You seem very knowledgeable about the chapel walls and the moisture creeping up and eroding the actual stones. In your informed opinion could the same thing be happening at the chateau itself? We all know she has a huge problem with moisture inside the building…
 
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As someone who has run extremely large to small intimate events, I would NEVER allow a random made-up menu to be served to my paid event guests, especially one as unappetizing as this luncheon horror. Lentils? FFS.
I'm a huge fan of lentil salad and the most upscale way I've seen it served was with about $20 worth of cold poached salmon and $10 very fresh herbs/lemon zest vinaigrette at the Hay Adams Hotel in DC.
It's also the season in France of the charentais melon, melon being the soul mate of lentil salad as cucumber cubes with skin are the soul mates of hummus. Cucurbits and beans, a fecund area of exploration.
Lentil salad hard to plate though, can't remember how it was done at the Hay Adams. I suspect green and not brown lentils are the starting point, with fresh spicy leaves underneath, like watercress.
Trying to brighten it up with beet salad is a typically skinflint choice by Jarvis. Lardons (as shown cooking the lentil salad) were one of Isabelle's Oliver Twist master of the Mudfog Workhouse dodges for not serving meat to her volunteer employees. We see Stephanie feeding her paying guests with the same memory of a whisper of lardon in the lentil salad -- bad idea, bacon fat can coagulate.
Dark brown lentils and dark red beets for lunch with tomato tart, a badly thought through choice for eye appeal, flavor and texture contrasts.
Here's two revised lunch menu using the same, and more, seasonal ingredients, for the music workshop guests.

Lemonade with Lalande Honey for the Singers' Throats
Panzanella
Cold Poached Salmon, Sauce Verte
Green Puy Lentil Salad, with Lemon Zest and Parsley, Charentais Melon Ball Skewers, Room Temp Port Wine Dipping Sauce
Mirabelle Plum Fool
Fresh Seasonal Artisanal Saint Nectaire and Ossau Iraty Cheese, Fresh Mirabelle Plums, Toasts, Lalande Honey
Hot Tea

Lemonade with Lalande Honey for the Singers' Throats
Beet Borscht, let the Russians and Ukrainians make it with beef bone broth, Sour Cream
Cold Boiled Beef, Salsa Verde
Sliced Tomatoes, with Roquefort, Honey and Pink Pepper
Baguette, French Butter
Fresh Raspberries, Vanilla Ice Cream, Raspberry Coulis
Lavender Madeleines
Linden Blossom Tea
 
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It seems that there is much of “little consequence” to old Perce. My mind went right to his despicable racism.

What a pack of liars. Pubes is a total drongo!
Note on the Australian insult: "drongo."
It is a term used to describe someone who is an ignorant, stupid, and a pain in the arse.

It derives from a popular 1920's racehorse named the Spangled Drongo, after the bird species of the same name. A racehorse of high promise, Drongo subsequently became an insult thanks to the horse never ever winning a race, despite frequently coming 2nd and third during it's long racing career. A drongo can also be taken to mean someone who isn't even worthy of being called 2nd best, but an all round looser.

The drongo bird, on the other hand, has many sub-orders, all of which are really very clever. They are known for being cunning, brash, manipulative and aggressive.
 
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@ComtesseRose ”The Chestnut Man” book was made into a Netflix series. It was very good. I love crime fiction and non fiction. This must be the draw to CD.
 
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P.S.
I'll add Sigrid Nunes, Isabel Allende, Rachel Cusk.

I'll add Sigrid Nunes, Isabel Allende, Rachel Cusk.
And Oatmeal! Anything by Oatmeal.
 
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Somebody who actually knows something. Thank you for this.
It is a catastrophe for France too, and for artisans like Viart, who cannot find an apprentice.
I note that Martijn Doolaard, restoring a tiny shepherd's hut on YT, was also advised or told or made assumptions from orders, to make a concrete ring around the roof he's installing on his stone hut. Bad idea?


 
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I believe Phil has raided her closet and absconded with them!
 
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I've just figured out what is in the silver metal brief case that IJ has been lugging around. And it's nothing so infamous as the missing accounts. It doesn't even belong to IJ but to Percy.

It contains the remote control for Percy's model aircraft. The briefcase will also contain a USB charger, a manual, a tool set, and extra parts such as an spare propeller, landing gear and spare batteries, with possibly a small camera.

A old mate in Oz is big into drones (and model aircraft to a smaller degree) and that's what he and his mates carry their stuff about in, a metal silver foam padded briefcase.
 
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I forgot to add that lentil salad with blueberries and fresh chevre is a local summer specialty of the exceptionally good nearby restaurant, Le Relais du Facteur, in Saint Severe, featured as a starter on its picnic menu for August. Green lentils of Puy are local and world famous.
This picnic menu is offered for €10. They usually have €13 and €17 menus -- Jarvis charges €50 -- of elegantly cooked local food, including salmon, trout, foie gras, and so on. Jarvis could and should be serving much better food for much less.
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Mummy only likes using the dryer for towels...*rolls eyes* not clothes. *Musketeer boy lowers and raises the ancient drying rack for cinematic effect * See? This is important kiss ass stuff right there..$$$$. Now, lets see Musketeer boy tap dance for his allowance.
 
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this guy and crew are amazing
 
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Kat and Snorts together gives me Mean Girls vibe
 
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Just watched Chateau de la Ferte' one year time lapse there are some pretty serious people doing some pretty serious renovation OK Fanny what so you have??????? Seriously what do you have??? renovation wise and not shopping or travel????
 
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