Well I think we can class that as a success.

6 duck legs (it was a bugger catching a 6 legged duck but we managed it)
A rack of belly pork
6 herb an garlic sausages
6 cloves of garlic
3 carrots
4 tins of haricot beans
Tomatoes
1 bottle of red wine

Accompanied by sweet and spicy red cabbage and more booze. All finished of with Jenny’s scrummy flap jack.

6 well fed adults can’t be wrong.

It’s a celebration of British failure at its finest, but in for a penny, in for a pound. If you can’t beat em, join em.

What are i rambling on about, Bonfire Night and our own personal take on it.

BBQ Hot Dogs and burgers around our mini fire, with (and this is breaking all the rules), crap indoor fireworks, out doors. Yes you heard me right, the terribly tacky and awful indoor fireworks, OUT DOORS!

Oh yes, we know how to party hard.

With a teenager!!!!!

That’ll be two women to drive Mr Fogg crazy then.

No wonder he looks happy.

It’s the season to be spoooooooky

Just before we climbed onto the plane to Carcassonne I had my usual wander around the airport bookshop. One particular title caught my eye. Drunk Tank Pink.

I just had to buy it.

It’s not the normal book I would buy but it is fascinating and an easy read. It’s all about psychology and some very strange effects that colours, words and symbol have on us as people.

Take for instance bright pink, the colour. Science has proved that if you stare at or are in a room of this colour you are weakened somehow. An experiment with several groups proved the effect. It calms humans, reduces strength and resistance. Hence drunk tank pink colours, it has been proven to reduce aggression of arrested drunks if you lock them in a cell of this colour. Marketing companies use it to help sell products or to get us to linger longer in their stores. I’m currently reading the part about names and how this can affect your future- all about pronounceability. Some fascinating insights and experiments in here.

Worth a read.

Ah yes a weekend of haricot beans and a pressurised flight back to the UK, what bliss for fellow travellers. It has all the makings of Christmas Take 2 Fug.

In the event of oxygen being depleted in the cabin, masks can be purchased from the crew.

A nice few days of food, drink and walking bloody miles.

We now have a new menu option for you to try as well when we see you next, cassoulet. Oh yummy.

menu option

Ooo we got the lingo rockin now.

A day of ambling and eating with sweaty sock pizza followed by the “who can wear most crepè in one sitting.

And the winner is:

Now this is what you call beer