Adjusting recipe to match the power of the oven (of lack of) is necessary in my experience.

Yorkkshire puds! So not French.

Reminds me of Walker Evans photos of barns and store fronts

I think what looks like the sunrise in that first photo of the Ecrins might actually be 'alpenglow', a phenomenon caused by light from the sunrise or, more often the sunset, being reflected by snow covered mountains, so usually in the opposite horizon to where the sun should be at that time of day.

Looks familiar!

In episode 4 (I think it is) Le Carré makes a cameo appearance himself, seated in a Hamburg sex club at a table with 2 women. Just a few seconds, with Smiley seated at another table in the extreme foreground of the camera view.

Ça marche !

This little fir cone dropped out of the wall during the drilling. At least 125 years old.

Still drilling through the wall though. 47 cm done, 20cm to go….

That's how I do my tax returns.

Aand the pipe is finally in and a nice new chapeau on the chimney pot to kerp rain out and birds away. Next, drill a vent through a 70cm stone wall.

They’ve changed tack and are now going to try and pull it up the chimney instead of feeding it down from the roof

Apparently there is something somewhere in the ancient chimney that is slightly blocking the inserion of the new pipe…. 🤔😵‍💫

A huge roll of pipe for the flue to the roof and a very heavy stove.

Colllage underfoot

The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a f*cking wise man in sight…

Thinking about that mesh.

Is it like an IPA? The yuzu is a citrus fruit like a mandarin orange. I’ve had a yuzu saké which was very nice chilled.

Is that over at Lioux? If so I’ve ridden around the roafs there a bit