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ello gorgeous’ said Mrs W the other night. As I leaned in for the kiss, she walked straight past me and went to the dog.

OK I thought, me next. Unfortunately, I forgot we also have two cats… As always, it’s the little things like that which make me happy I’m on the downslope of life. Anyway dear readers, how are you all? Did you enjoy the Jubilee celebrations? I didn’t see that much of them, a little like the Queen.

Starlink internet is flippin’ brilliant. It’s expensive for sure at 99 euros per month, but you get what you pay for.

Download speeds of well over 200Mbps and upload speeds over 20Mbps? Thank you very much. Yes the kit is also expensive, but, if you can justify the cost, it really is very good. However, if you do want to use the system, be aware that it only comes with a ground mount as standard. Not ideal. You can order a wall mount directly from Starlink but not until you’ve signed up and have an account. The dish can be made to fit a French bracket or pole but it requires a bit of fiddling around to make it properly secure.

Freesat is not the same as Freeview. Please don’t buy a Freeview box for the reception of UK TV. It’s the ‘sat’ bit we want.

Just to clarify, if you bring your Sky Q box over from the UK, it will not work with a standard ‘universal’ LNB. It needs to be connected to a wideband LNB. Also be aware that a ‘Sky’ wideband LNB does not properly fit into the clamp of a standard French satellite dish. It can be made to, but it’s a pain. Non-Sky wideband LNBs can be purchased online or if you prefer, we have them as well. These fit French dishes just fine. It just needs a 40mm ‘neck’.

Whilst on the subject of LNBs, what do you do if you want to run more than 8 cables from your dish? Whilst this isn’t the worst problem to have, it can be tricky to solve.

One option is to install a second dish and go from there.

The other, more professional way, is to use a mini-switch (or commutateur) system and a quattro LNB. This LNB is different from a quad LNB as the quattro has specific outputs for each ‘band’ (horizontal & vertical, high & low of each). This special LNB then sends the signals down 4 cables to the mini-switch. This switch can then feed numerous rooms with a single cable to each satellite receiver. The receiver, by way of the mini-switch, can see the entire spectrum of frequencies and it’s like each receiver is connected to its own dish. All are independent of one another. You can even connect a terrestrial aerial and send French TV to all the rooms as well.

It is a little complicated to install and might be best left to a professional, but it’s a very efficient way of distributing satellite and terrestrial TV to multiple rooms. It’s especially handy in more modern houses as most should have TV cabling to each habitable room already.

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by Stuart Wallace

Orange has stopped broadcasting TV via satellite. They want everyone to have their TV service via the internet.

This is great if you have decent speeds, but not so great if like many people, you don’t. So, if you need to keep your satellite service for French TV, you effectively have two options which do not require you to realign your dish. The first is a Canal+ subscription. This is like the French equivalent of Sky TV in the UK. However, it’s quite expensive if you’re also still paying Orange for the internet etc. The second is TNTSAT. This gives all the same channels as if you were connected to a terrestrial aerial. You can also access all the other free to air channels from the Astra 1 satellite. There is no monthly subscription.

As always, please feel free to get in touch if you would like any further information or would like to discuss your requirements. Contact details can be found on the advert.

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The History Of French Food

by Chloé Louise Moore

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Life in 79

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Home and Garden

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A Friend In The Garden He is not John the gardener, and yet the whole day long, Employs himself most usefully, the flower beds among.

He is not Tom the pussy cat, and yet the other day, With stealthy stride and glistening eye he crept upon his prey.

He is not Dash the dear old dog, and yet perhaps, if you -Took pains with him and petted him, you’d come to love him too.

He’s not a blackbird, though he chirps, and though he once was black, But now he wears a loose grey coat, all wrinkled on the back.

He’s got a very dirty face, and very shining eyes, He sometimes comes and sits indoors; he looks…….and p’raps is….wise.

But in a sunny flower bed he has his fixed abode; He eats the things that eat my plants…….he is a friendly TOAD!!

Juliana Horatio Ewing Juliana was born in Ecclesfield, Sheffield England on August 3rd 1841 and died in Bath Somerset in 1885. An English writer of children’s stories, she had great understanding of the lives of children and a strong religious belief.

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Food and Drink

The Vineyard Guys

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fter what can only be described as 'Flaming June' with temperatures hitting 40 degrees we can expect more of the same for July but will we be getting plenty of stormy showers with it? With so little rain so far this year agriculture, in general, is going through a tough time.

Fruit growers and vineyards both suffered from the late frost in April and although the lack of rain does have its advantages, for example the reduced risk of disease, if it continues it will affect the size of the fruit ultimately.

Unlike most fruit production, vines in France cannot be irrigated once they have reached two years old. As we have mentioned before, this is what makes French wine and its vintages so important and a great deal of regulation and restriction exists to protect this unique heritage of French wine making. With the ever changing weather across the world keeping true to this heritage of vintage may become more and more difficult. The heat of the summer sunshine brings the sugar and with us experiencing higher temperatures there is a risk that these sugar levels will

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become too high, with lower rainfall we get less juice and in turn the alcohol level of the wine increases, as the sugar becomes alcohol more of the Bordeaux wines are now 14% abv (alcohol by volume) with some even reaching 15% abv.

Our gîtes have been busy once more as we welcome guests old and new to stay and enjoy this beautiful corner of France that we call home. They love staying on a vineyard and many don’t move far from our grounds as they charge the batteries listening to the wildlife and strolling through the vines and woodlands. We have had writers and painters taking inspiration from the tranquillity, which is broken occasionally when we are out on the tractor or working in the cellar or the laughter over a glass of wine or two in the gardens of an evening. With what we have all had to put up with over the past few years and the restrictions, many of our current guests are only just getting to make the visit

possible and allow the wine to age at a more controlled rate.

Too high a temperature and the wine can age prematurely and too low the ageing could stall.

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they originally booked two years ago. Like anything good, they tell us it was worth the wait.

We have been getting to grips with almost daily wine tours again, we both have a slightly different style when is comes to the presentation but people leave well informed and entertained….. leaving with a box or two of wine too!

So what wine should you place in your cellar? Well that’s up to you but a few wines will not benefit from being cellared for any length of time due to its type or way it has been made. So which is which? If it is your everyday white wine or our fabulous Rosé, then it’s a great place to keep your excess stock that you intend to save over the following few weeks. Most whites and rosés are meant to be drunk and are not best kept for more than two years. The same goes for any bottle with a screw cap or plastic/resin cork.

So that’s one side of your cellar sorted, the wines you drink daily and don’t want to or need to store.

So now there are the reds and the key things to look for are wines with deep colour, slightly higher acidity/moderate to low pH. Alcohol levels should be balanced with noticeable tannins. Wines become softer and more refined with age and the smoky characteristics can open more. Cabinet Sauvignon, Cabinet Franc and Merlot from our region here around Bordeaux are all good for aging and will lay down for 15-20 years if the quality of the cork and the environment is there to maintain the wines integrity. Wines generally and those of the Bordeaux region especially, will

To store or not to store, that is the question.

Storing wine is one of those questions that many people are not really sure about. Let’s try and go through the basics before we get too confused.

The cellar itself, what does your cellar look like? Is it an actual cellar which is dark and damp? A cupboard in the garage? Or under the stairs? Where should I store my wine?

Any of the above are fine before you start panicking for no real reason, so your neighbour has a racked out cellar with a gravel floor and he monitors the temperature and humidity every day…. This could be described as serious about wine or obsessive, you choose. The ideal environment is not available to all of us but this is what you should be aiming for.

A storage temperature between 12 and 17 degrees that does not change too rapidly between seasons and a humidity between 60 and 70 percent, These will both help to maintain the corks ability to do its job for as long as

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You need to remember that wine is individual and a wine may be at your perfect taste after just a year or two so buying a few to drink, a few to lay down and keep sampling your cellar and note what you like and the taste differences you notice.

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125 g unsalted butter 175 g light brown sugar 1 medium egg 1 tsp vanilla extract 300 g plain flour 11/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp bicarb of soda 1/2 tsp sea salt 200 g white chocolate 100 g blue/red M&Ms Add butter and sugar to a bowl and beat until creamy. Add egg, vanilla, plain flour, baking powder, and salt and beat until a cookie dough is formed. Add chocolate chips and M&Ms and beat until they're distributed.

Form 8 cookie balls, place in freezer for at least 30 minutes. Take your cookies out of the freezer/fridge and put onto a lined baking tray.

Bake at 180 C for 11-13 minutes then leave to cool.

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Cake 300 g Unsalted Butter 300 g Caster Sugar 245 g Self Raising Flour 55 g Cocoa Powder 6 Medium Eggs Chocolate Buttercream 200 g Unsalted Butter 400 g Icing Sugar 50 g Cocoa Powder Instructions Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan, and line two 8" cake tins with parchment paper.

Beat together your Butter and Sugar then add Flour, Cocoa Powder and Eggs, and beat until combined.

Add to the tins, and bake in the oven for 28-32 minutes. leave to cool For the Chocolate Buttercream Beat Butter and Icing Sugar once combined add in the Cocoa Powder until it becomes smooth and lovely.

To Decorate Place your first sponge on a plate/cake board, and pipe/spread on half of the buttercream frosting. Add on the second cake, and pipe/spread on the rest of the buttercream.

Add on anything you fancy as decoration, I used sprinkles. Enjoy!

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Health, Beauty and Fitness

Health Matters

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love the outdoors, being in nature, filling my lungs with fresh air, cycling far and swimming wild – and summer is the time when doing all of those things comes easily. I still do them in spring and autumn and winter too and I know that there are lots of people who have taken to year-round wild dips, all enthusiastically reporting the benefits they feel, especially to their mental health.

Gill Castle, Stoma Chameleon, has a story to tell, having suffered significant trauma when her son was born, leaving her with PTSD and a permanent colostomy. I interviewed her for a podcast last year when she told me that after a number of years clawing her way back to life, she decided that she was going to reframe her experience and start raising awareness (and money) for the Birth Trauma Association , which supports other mums who have not had the delivery that they had expected. As a result, she has done all kinds of crazy stuff from skydiving (she’s scared of heights) to a half iron man, to swimming in the North Sea near her home in Northumberland three times a week throughout last winter, wearing only a bikini and her stoma bag. Her next dose of craziness is to swim the English Channel, and if successful she will be the first person with a stoma to have done so. She works, is a mum a lot and oh, she just started a charity in her spare time too, Chameleon Buddies .

Her story led me to wonder what support there is for women going through the perinatal period here in France and so I hooked up with Nadège Fuzeau who is an ‘accompagnante perinatale ’ and asked her to explain her role. She told me that an AP is similar to a doula, i.e. a person, usually a woman, who supports another woman through pregnancy and childbirth, except here in France there is a BIG difference. Here, AP’s have 2 years training by professionals in all the aspects of emotional support required to accompany women from conception and throughout pregnancy and delivery, until the child is 1 year old.

She was keen to point out that this is rather like osteopathy in that it is not a ‘medical service’ that is adopted by the state, nor does it replace GP or midwife involvement, but is nonetheless extremely valuable to those who need the continuity of the same trained individual’s hand to hold, explain and support. We talked about Gill and her experience and Nadège tells me that she would have been beside Gill through all the challenges and choices that had to be made, to stand with her when all was not well but no one was listening, to advocate, liaise and help to find the right professional and attend appointments. I have to say, I’m impressed and know that if I was young enough to be pregnant here, I’d want a Nadège by my side! This one comes with an additional advantage…which is that she speaks great English and is qualified to accompany and support others to hospital and social care appointments, not just parents-to-be!

If anyone wants to learn more, you can make contact by email at - mylaccompagnement@gmail.com or on facebook - nadege.myl.accompagnement. She is based in Chiché and I plan to drag her out wild swimming. She doesn’t know it yet.

Maybe you have heard of the Bluetits ? The Bluetits Chill Swimmers Ltd is a UK based social enterprise committed to empowering outdoor dippers. They have informal groups of mixed-gender people who just like to swim (or dip) together - some carrying on throughout the winter months too. They have groups around the world, but I happened to notice that there are none on their map of mainland France!

I was wondering if there is any appetite for a Bluetits here in the Deux-Sèvres? Maybe it will give us superpower, like Gill?

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8 July, Milton Keynes

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GERMANY v DENMARK DENMARK v FINLAND 12 July, Milton Keynes

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GERMANY v SPAIN

SEMI FINAL 1

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Winner Qtr Final 1

Winner Qtr Final 3

FINAL

31 July, Wembley

Winner Semi Final 1

Winner Semi Final 2

SEMI FINAL 2

27 July, Milton Keynes

Winner Qtr Final 2

QTR FINAL 3

QTR FINAL 4

Runner Up Group C

Winner Group D

21 July, Rotherham

Runner Up Group D

Winner Group C

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UEFA WOMEN’S EURO 2022 QTR FINAL 1 20 July, Brighton

Winner Group A

Runner Up Group B

QTR FINAL 2

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Winner Group B

Runner Up Group A

Winner Qtr Final 4

GROUP C

9 July, Wigan & Leigh

PORTUGAL v SWITZ’LAND

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NETHERLANDS v SWEDEN

13 July, Wigan & Leigh

SWEDEN v SWITZERLAND

N’LANDS v PORTUGAL

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17 July, Wigan & Leigh

SWITZERLAND v N’LANDS

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SWEDEN v PORTUGAL

GROUP D

10 July, Manchester

BELGIUM v ICELAND

FRANCE v ITALY

10 July, Rotherham

ITALY v ICELAND

14 July, Manchester

14 July, Rotherham

FRANCE v BELGIUM

ICELAND v FRANCE

18 July, Manchester

FINLAND v GERMANY 16 July, Milton Keynes

18 July, Rotherham

ITALY v BELGIUM

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DENMARK v SPAIN