Originally posted by P. G. Tipps
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Yes, I readily concede that it's normally one or the other ...Originally posted by ahinton View Post
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Eric Pode of Croydon
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Things that time forgot :
madeleines...
Can't remember when I last dipped one in to my morning tisane de tilleul ...
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The Bottle of Sherry? I don't suppose it was the same in all families, but we had a bottle of sherry that came out at Christmas and then went back in the cupboard till the following Christmas. Lasted for years. Sherry was either British or South African.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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I've still got one for that purpose (and to add to Chinese-style fry-ups)Originally posted by french frank View PostPacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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... this anecdote is almost too perfect to be trueOriginally posted by french frank View Post
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Cousin! We have the same grandmother...!!!Originally posted by french frank View Post 
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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in the UK maybe, but Spain pretty much runs on them, doesn't it?Originally posted by vinteuil View PostThings that time forgot :
madeleines...
Can't remember when I last dipped one in to my morning tisane de tilleul ...I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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... and woz it not the Pet Shop Boys in the track 'Memory of the Future' (from their 2012 album Elysium) who sang:Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
Over and over again
I keep tasting that sweet madeleine
looking back at my life now and then
asking: if not later then when?
I suspect Marcel wd've approved...
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How true!Originally posted by french frank View Post
Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry was the popular choice from memory, at least for the middle and upper working-classes. I suspect it might have been no different in Bristol itself?
In the Glasgow of my youth a bottle of heavily-fortified wine called Lanliq was overwhelmingly the preferred tipple for rather more granite-throated D/E consumers, and which tended to last considerably less long.
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Harvey's Bristol Cream isn't British sherry. Spanish sherry (Falstaff's sherris sack) was popular in Britain from the sixteenth century, and Harvey's (of Bristol) were importing wines from Jerez in the late eighteenth century, before investing in vineyards in Spain.
British sherry, OTOH, is, or was - like Buckfast Tonic Wine and VP wine (from the Pick of the Vine) - made in Britain from imported grape juice.
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Yes, Bristol Cream was the tipple of choice in the mangertonian parents' household. There was also a bottle of port, purchased c 1949, which lurked for decades at the back of the drinks cupboard. It had been opened, and one glassful had been consumed. When I reached man's estate, I tried it, and it was by then (of course) undrinkable.Comment
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Dylan Thomas used to refer to what he called washing sherry.Comment
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