The Chateau Diaries #52 SJ and BJJ, under the Tuscan sun. A honeymoon or a holiday?

[BlackWolf]

Ohhh not so sure that is actually - love does seem to have a social media potty mouth LOL

I didn't fully realise the import of my text - until after posted Wife would kill me if she knew...

 

[prettyplease]

Marie is only grifly-drifty homeless…not the same thing!

 

[toilingwiththetoile]

I have my theories but for now I will stick to what I do know. She has invested (time and money) in the Lalande tour/workshop dream. She has become the mouthpiece/shield/defender for Lalande. She has yet to recoup on her investment. Brenda may become another wild card.

Right..I do vaguely remember something about tours etc. - so its her. The plot thickens..CD is like Midsomer Murders - every episode - someone comes to a weird end.

Marie is only grifly-drifty homeless…not the same thing!

Drify looking to borrow a place to live - not is there a place I can rent - someone will front up with a place for her. I actually worry about her,heavens knows what people see these requests.

 

[Pekey]

since you have been brave to say your story

Well , here is mine .
After talking to my Respiratory and Cardiac doctors I decided to have the injections.
It was a risk but if I caught covid I would not have a chance.
I have been on ventilators three times in my life in ICU and I do not want to go back there again if I can help it.
In the end its up to everyone to decided what they want/need to do .

 

[BlackWolf]

Right..I do vaguely remember something about tours etc. - so its her. The plot thickens..CD is like Midsomer Murders - every episode - someone comes to a weird end.


Drify looking to borrow a place to live - not is there a place I can rent - someone will front up with a place for her. I actually worry about her,heavens knows what people see these requests.

There's a risk she ends up on sexslavery,com being compared to a camel...

 

[OldSoul]

OMG...I tried watching Sadie's video...the intro is so annoyingly long!!
It was so terrible that I decided to look for something more interesting:

 

[BlackWolf]

Well , here is mine .
After talking to my Respiratory and Cardiac doctors I decided to have the injections.
It was a risk but if I caught covid I would not have a chance.
I have been on ventilators three times in my life in ICU and I do not want to go back there again if I can help it.
In the end its up to everyone to decided what they want/need to do .

That's great, protection is all. You don't need to be shot to see the sense in a bulletproof jacket in a warzone. Great bravery on your part. Commendable.

 

[Jikki2]

Bad idea? Knowledge is not a bad idea.

No knowledge in that video, just absolute bullshit. It's based on a Spanish doctor analysing one vial and he later admitted the dubious origin of that vial.

Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines do not contain graphene oxide

Online reports that COVID-19 vaccines contain graphene oxide are unfounded.

www.reuters.com

 

[purejuice]

Just to slightly derail, but it does relate to a running topic within the CD threads so.may I beg your collective indulgence for a moment. Not all of those who remain unvaccinated are in any way anti-vax. It might only be a tiny percentage but there are those - me included - who have health "issues" which might be exacerbated by the vaccine, and it's too much of a risk to take the chance. Whether anything untoward would happen is impossible to predict and is like asking how long is a piece of string. There's no definitive answer. But after weighing up the pros and cons of my ongoing situation vs an unknown quantity, and based on conversations with my GP, a consultant and a friend who's a retired consultant physician, I remain jobless. It means that life, or my little world at home, for the time being continues to be within closed borders, as it has been since last year. Which isn't a whole heap of fun. I'm not looking for sympathy or playing the martyrdom card...to use a Davyism, "it is what it is".

Anyways (!), back on track...

I've been mulling over Friar Ivo. I get the distinct whiff of eau de poisson. I need to watch/listen to Sunday's vlog again, although I'm not sure I've got the necessary calm karma to suffer SJ in her Pucci frock and toile de Jouy kitten heels all over again! I also want to try to persuade Gargle/Gargoyle Translate to cooperate and turn some obscure discussion forum I found from Catalan into English. It's probably red herring sleuthing and completely irrelevant to CD. But I'm both fascinated and bewildered by the - apparent - enormous wealth swirling around Ivo. And the vast and eclectic collection of antiquities and artefacts in the chateau makes me wonder about their provenance, and how he came to acquire them. A profiteer? A privateer?

One thing is clear: he's NOT a knight in the sense of being a baronet (UK hereditary title). The Forensa family is well-known and well-connected but, as far as I can make out, he's not a Spanish/Catalan/Andorran nobleman. The knight/baronet reference in the auction details of items from his private collection - as cited in the last thread - is sloppy (but eye-catching) copywriting by the Singapore auction house. It relates to Knights Templar...the conversation in the "Christian Salon" is what sent me headlong down a rabbit hole.

That's enough about that. Moving on to FRK and her relentless quest to get everything for nothing and have the world handed to her on a plate. Her guest appearance on the Fleurie's Sunday vlog surely to goodness will have posed questions with all but the most stalwart/blind/dim of her supporters about what exactly they are supporting? It was an avalanche in slow motion. She really does not have a clue. She knows nothing about - and cares even less - flowers, except for a few names which she drops into conversation. Hydrangeagate was unintentionally hilarious. She's a one trick pony with the "florals" she produces. I hope that's the end of the vlogging BFF she has engineered and wheedled her way into with Anna. The change of title and thumbnail was telling. Perhaps they suddenly saw the light? No doubt the "interview" with Anna will be every bit as painful and unsuccessful as the ones before. There are many reasons why Marie's foray into interviewing is so excruciating, not least that she lacks the skills required (doing her homework, asking pertinent questions and listening to the answers would be a start).

And then Marie embarking on the next phase of global domination with her return to England. With nowhere to live. To do what exactly, other than peddle some half-baked credo that relies heavily on emotional blackmail? No firm plans beyond returning to France for her first (and only?) wedding flowers' commission plus the Team Lalande outing to Versailles for Phlip-Phlop's birthday. Which is a joke in itself, as she patently loathes BJJ.

At best, Marie is certainly not short of self belief. At worst, she takes delusion to a level beyond the intergalactic. All while manipulating suckers to cough up,and fuel her Walter Mitty manifesto (and her car!).

Just one more thing. Stephane: my gut instinct is that she has been rattled by patrons suddenly becoming more assertive, more questioning, more demanding in terms of asking probing questions about work in progress, a schedule or works, time frames, future projects, project management, costings. Being held to account is not in her psyche. She needs to keep the patrons sweet. Transparency. Organised. Efficient. Focus. The scattergun approach towards her grandiose schemes and her not inconsiderable charm is not enough if she doesn't want patrons to vote with their feet.

Incidentally, i was chatting to a friend who drives to and from the South of France quite frequently, breaking the journey each way with an over-nighter at a chateau/manoir type B&B (not hellholes in the middle of nowhere). They quite often chose to have the table d'hote supper en famille with the B&B host. She said that €35 p.h. Is the absolute maximum she and her husband would pay: drink & amuse bouche pre supper, starter, main course, cheese, pudding - wine with the meal, perhaps a digestif offered with coffee afterwards. Delicious food - simple, locally sourced if not homegrown, beautifully cooked, elegantly presented in lovely surroundings, interesting and convivial conversation. She couldn't speak for laughing when I told her what one got for the Lalande Experience at €50 p.h.

Way, way too long a post. If you've read to the end, I can say only that I'm very greatful

Perspicaceous, thanks for the info about Ivo.
The thing about SJ's €50 supermarket dinners, with boxed supermarket wine, is that proximate to any reality -- local menus 5 star or the €13 special at Relais du Facteur, French b n b menus -- they are absurd.

 

[Bored Mermaid CC]

Silence is golden

And now it's all right, it's okay
And you may look the other way
We can try to understand
The Tattle' effect on man
…
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive

 

[BlackWolf]

And now it's all right, it's okay
And you may look the other way
We can try to understand
The Tattle' effect on man
…
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive

Grandpappy is jivin 6 feet down

No knowledge in that video, just absolute bullshit. It's based on a Spanish doctor analysing one vial and he later admitted the dubious origin of that vial.

Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines do not contain graphene oxide

Online reports that COVID-19 vaccines contain graphene oxide are unfounded.

www.reuters.com

Bullshit baffles brains...

 

[Bored Mermaid CC]

That dress…La Chatelaine has worn it so many times in the past week(s)….to confuse the timing of filming and the actual release date of the vlogs?

am so sick of that house dress-

Dear Stephanny:

please do the laundry


regards,
Tattle

 

[toilingwiththetoile]

Well , here is mine .
After talking to my Respiratory and Cardiac doctors I decided to have the injections.
It was a risk but if I caught covid I would not have a chance.
I have been on ventilators three times in my life in ICU and I do not want to go back there again if I can help it.
In the end its up to everyone to decided what they want/need to do .

Agree totally, this is so personal and everyone is different. My rheumy and I have discussed this through - I have no desire to have any ill health - if we had an outbreak in Tas like NSW - disaster - this is such a serious matter.

 

[KiKiGee]

FRK may as well send smoke signals. This is how she does business???

 

[Bored Mermaid CC]

okay thanks to me for placing the ear worm of Staying Alive in my own brain now I’ll be dancing and singing all day


ah ah ah damn it

 

[toilingwiththetoile]

Off to sleep now lovlies! Thank you for the laughs and gasps! Night

 

[purejuice]

Well , here is mine .
After talking to my Respiratory and Cardiac doctors I decided to have the injections.
It was a risk but if I caught covid I would not have a chance.
I have been on ventilators three times in my life in ICU and I do not want to go back there again if I can help it.
In the end its up to everyone to decided what they want/need to do .

The likelihood of my getting access to a ventilator in an overwhelmed hospital system is almost nil. They ration them here -- over 60, over a certain BMI, respiratory disease, all are unspoken criteria for denying access to a ventilator.
A really bad death, alone, sucking up resources the young could better use, vs. neither persuasive nor universal evidence of side effects?
I was vaccinated ASAP, with absolutely no side effects.
Christian evangelicals in the US are the stronghold of anti-vax. There are about 20 million anti vaxxers among them. It's political and cultural, not religious, and sober Christian evangelicals have decided to make a Christian argument for vaccination. Along the lines of Love thy neighbor, get thy vax. Their material is very good, and answers every fear and objection raised even by the unChristian, including the fetal tissue problem. I recommend it to everyone.

Christians and the Vaccine

Christians and the Vaccine provide Biblical thinking on the COVID vaccine. Should Christians take the COVID Vaccine? Should a Christian take the vaccine? Find out a biblical response to the vaccine from a former lead pastor.

www.christiansandthevaccine.com

 

[Pekey]

P

am so sick,of that house dress-

Oh there are so many of her dresses / outfits that I would happily Bag - Bin or Burn it !!!

Lets start off with the blue and white stripped OpShoppe dress/shirty thingy !

 

[BlackWolf]

Can COVID distinguish between a Christian and a non-Christian? If so, churches can use it to weed out the undesirables, as the case may be.

 

[Bored Mermaid CC]

Just to slightly derail, but it does relate to a running topic within the CD threads so.may I beg your collective indulgence for a moment. Not all of those who remain unvaccinated are in any way anti-vax. It might only be a tiny percentage but there are those - me included - who have health "issues" which might be exacerbated by the vaccine, and it's too much of a risk to take the chance. Whether anything untoward would happen is impossible to predict and is like asking how long is a piece of string. There's no definitive answer. But after weighing up the pros and cons of my ongoing situation vs an unknown quantity, and based on conversations with my GP, a consultant and a friend who's a retired consultant physician, I remain jobless. It means that life, or my little world at home, for the time being continues to be within closed borders, as it has been since last year. Which isn't a whole heap of fun. I'm not looking for sympathy or playing the martyrdom card...to use a Davyism, "it is what it is".

…

well shared-thank you for reminding us we are all in this together