The Chateau Diaries #48 No longer Doing It himself. Just doing everyone else

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Gibson

Gibson

KiKiGee said:
I'm fairly certain who this is but for now I'll post her recent pictures of Lalande. Why are they still making the guests eat breakfast in the kitchen?:sick:

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The magnificent Château de La Lande... the use of color and light in these interiors truly brings the vibrancy of the renaissance into the modern age.
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French breakfast in all it's splendor. The croissants are pure flaky butter that melt in your mouth, the mound of butter waits to be slathered ontop with an biting, bright jam. The coffee is strong and dark.
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Let us rewrite that!

The pile in the middle of nowhere that is Lalande, is an eclectic mix of pretentious styles and colour. Some do show taste whilst others quite frankly make you sick to look at it. Understated it isn't! The Vibrant nature of The Renaissance, could be front and centre but sadly it is as worn as it's rotten windows and shutters. The crumbling facade, is peeling like an afterthought, when someone forgot to care for it's skin.

The breakfast, would have been wonderfully received. Sadly, the background was in a grubby kitchen, where greasemarks abound and the table exhibits a thousand cuts of torture-one can only imagine what has been prepared there. I expect a petri dish could provide answers.
As for the mounds of butter, it reminds me of The last Tango in Paris, definitely not mouthwatering.

So Lalande, you fall far short of the poetry that you could bring to our short vacation. I would like to wax lyrically about my stay, but sadly I now instead get to re wax my car after the Peacocks have left their offerings upon it.

Au revoir!
 
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purejuice said:
Having perused Davy's garden plan and his scholarly references to some things I actually know about -- Islamic/Alhambra influence on world architecture -- and his honing right in on Lalande's historic design nature as Renaissance -- I'd have to come down quite hard on SJ's sense of history or art history as related to Lalande. Her sense of place is demented. Davy's is spot on. I think she majored in walking on cobblestones in duck me shoes. (No disrespect, I majored in how to do cat wing eyeliner.)
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I wonder if she even went to Oxford? She lies about everything. I hope Davy is on the payroll and not doing this for free.
 
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Arfarf

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Right on Gibson!!!! And the buttery croissants are from the bakery!!! Heaven forbid any one at the Shitoo would get up and make a delicious BREAKFAST! HENCE the term "Bed and Breakfast" !!

But as a GUEST I WOULD feel safer eating food brought in from a bakery!
 
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Seeingitasitis

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KiKiGee said:
We are not sure who is getting married at Lalande. So I've taken the liberty of providing ideas for the nuptials.

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Congratulations on putting together a suitably vulgar collection. However, am I going to get shot to hell if I say that actually, I genuinely think that Philip would look great in the peacock suit? It screams to be worn by him.
 
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OneMoonbeam

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For €200 euro a night there had better be more than bakery bought croissants for paying guests. We should investigate.
 
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purejuice

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Not to change the subject, where did I see Dan's proposed menu for his one night chef stand at Lalande? It's not in his IG posts....but it was a masterpiece of professional simplicity and local ingredients. Maybe it's off and he's taken it down?
I think the starter was some permutation of goat cheese. A speciality of the Berry is salade Berrichonne which I don't think this was.
Then pan-roasted cod, home made frites, ratatouille.
Berry tart with berry accompaniments.
Please note the only thing that has to be cooked at the last minute is the frites.
That boy has a good head on him. Which is not enough, professional education and experience made the difference.
 
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Seeingitasitis

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Seeingitasitis said:
I love Dan and I am keeping the faith.

Speculating about Dan's sexuality is unfair. He is married, behaves with propriety and has given us no doubt whatsoever about where his interests lie - firmly with Annalise. He seems to me to be a lovely family man and hails from Portsmouth. Cannot do wrong in my book. We are making ourselves less than we are if we speculate with no evidence or foundation. Just my Humble Opinion and no, I am not Brenda. 😂
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Guys 61 positive reactions to my post. Thank you for your support on this one. You are such an amazing bunch. And welcome to all the new members - this is a great thread to be part of.
 
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KiKiGee said:
We are not sure who is getting married at Lalande. So I've taken the liberty of providing ideas for the nuptials.

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I'm not sure the Youtube is ready for such displays of class and elegance as would be forthcoming from Lalande doing weddings...
 
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Espe

On the thumbnail for Marie's vlog tonight about her new branding, there's picture of her van and all it says on the side facing the camera in large letters is: BY MARIE WIIK and then there is a design of some leaves. There is no business name and absolutely no indication of what the business is. There is nothing to suggest that it is a florist or floral designer or whatever else she thinks she is so if you are looking at that side of the van, you would have no idea what the brand is or what product/service she is selling. All you would know is that, whatever the hell she is selling, it's by someone called Marie Wiik!! Maybe it is clear on the other side but if not, there's no clue unless you are meant to guess what it is from the leaves! Also, surely both sides of the van would be the same and if so, there really is no clue at all and no branding, just her name! So much for the company that designed it and so much for Marie if she hasn't cottoned on to it. Of course, there may be some smaller writing somewhere else on the van but it certainly isn't on the side of the van we can see. In the photo, next to Marie is a circle with some other leaves saying something about florals but that is not on the van, Maybe the design of the van wrap hasn't been finished yet but then why show a van with just name on it?

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I'm not sure the Youtube is ready for such displays of class and elegance as would be forthcoming from Lalande doing weddings.
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Brilliant! Any one of those would be paarrfect! I can just see both SJ, BJ, and the other lads and girls in those costumes, I can't wait for the wedding of the year. Maybe the carriage could be pulled by hedgehogs and other little forest creatures!
 
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mrsp67

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Seeingitasitis said:
I love Dan and I am keeping the faith.

Speculating about Dan's sexuality is unfair. He is married, behaves with propriety and has given us no doubt whatsoever about where his interests lie - firmly with Annalise. He seems to me to be a lovely family man and hails from Portsmouth. Cannot do wrong in my book. We are making ourselves less than we are if we speculate with no evidence or foundation. Just my Humble Opinion and no, I am not Brenda. 😂
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Dan the man! Any man who spends time with his littles is a star in my book!
 
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Espe

MidCenturyMadOne said:
Not in the UK. A BA (hons) perfectly acceptable. My son decided to up his BSc a few years later and has an Msc - but still ended up on a standard graduate scheme Job.
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I agree with what you say about Bachelor's degrees in the UK. In fact, I have heard people say that school "A" levels are more like the first year of a degree in some other European countries, probably because in the UK, people specialise very much earlier, whereas in most other European countries people carry on much longer with most general subjects than we do, (That;s why I am hopeless at Maths and Science!) , However, Oxbridge (Ox and Cambs) Masters are different from those in the rest of the UK. After Oxford and Cambridge Bachelor of Arts degrees, you don't have to continue studying to get an MA. They are very different from other universities in the UK and the rest of Europe. Their MAs can just be awarded after 6 years on application with no additional study: the BA degree is "promoted" and an Oxbridge MA is not regarded a postgraduate degree as it would be in other universities. It would be odd if someone like SJ had not done that but we don't see her degree publicised so she may have done it. Most Oxbridge graduates probably do it just because it looks good and people unfamiliar with Oxbridge customs, may assume someone has done postgraduate study!
 
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purejuice

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purejuice said:
Not to change the subject, where did I see Dan's proposed menu for his one night chef stand at Lalande? It's not in his IG posts....but it was a masterpiece of professional simplicity and local ingredients. Maybe it's off and he's taken it down?
I think the starter was some permutation of goat cheese. A speciality of the Berry is salade Berrichonne which I don't think this was.
Then pan-roasted cod, home made frites, ratatouille.
Berry tart with berry accompaniments.
Please note the only thing that has to be cooked at the last minute is the frites.
That boy has a good head on him. Which is not enough, professional education and experience made the difference.
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Starter could also have been fromagee Berrichonne, which seems more likely.

Fromagée berrichonne - Cuisine Campagne

Caractéristique de la tradition culinaire berrichonne, la fromagée était autrefois un "mangement" qui se savourait à toute heure de la journée, avec un grosse tranche de
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The nice little local restaurant whose €13 and €17 menus I've been referencing as examples of local seasonal French food, as opposed to MW's awful chicken, roast winter veg, cabbage and hummus supermarket menus, for which the grifters are pleased to charge their pay pigs €50, has a menu with the fromagee on it.
(I just looked up Miel des Pauvres: it's dandelion flower syrup. Yum.)
Le Relais du la Facteur in Saint Severe:
 

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On the thumbnail for Marie's vlog tonight about her new branding, there's picture of her van and all it says on the side facing the camera in large letters is: BY MARIE WIIK and then there is a design of some leaves. There is no business name and absolutely no indication of what the business is. There is nothing to suggest that it is a florist or floral designer or whatever else she thinks she is so if you are looking at that side of the van, you would have no idea what the brand is or what product/service she is selling. All you would know is that, whatever the hell she is selling, it's by someone called Marie Wiik!! Maybe it is clear on the other side but if not, there's no clue unless you are meant to guess what it is from the leaves! Also, surely both sides of the van would be the same and if so, there really is no clue at all and no branding, just her name! So much for the company that designed it and so much for Marie if she hasn't cottoned on to it. Of course, there may be some smaller writing somewhere else on the van but it certainly isn't on the side of the van we can see. In the photo, next to Marie is a circle with some other leaves saying something about florals but that is not on the van, Maybe the design of the van wrap hasn't been finished yet but then why show a van with just name on it?


Brilliant! Any one of those would be paarrfect! I can just see both SJ, BJ, and the other lads and girls in those costumes, I can't wait for the wedding of the year. Maybe the carriage could be pulled by hedgehogs and other little forest creatures!
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Maybe she's planning on doing other things as well.Not only flowers?🤔
 
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