20 October 2025

More old vineyard photos

These are some photos I took in the Renaudière vineyard back in October 2018.
I was using a Panasonic Lumix-TZ3 compact digital camera back then.

By the way, today is the 20th anniversary of my blog. I posted for the first time on October 20, 2005. About what? About food, of course. The ED market featured in that post closed down many years ago...

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  1. Ed stores merged with Simply Market... the one in Liguel that we used to go to was kept open and re-badged Simply Market.... then Simply Market was taken over by Auchan and the Liguel store was re-badged.... but interestingly the signage at the roundabout... and the map of Liguel on the side of the cart shelter as well.... expense probably.... but a lot of the businesses on the map are no more [or have changed name]
    Love these pictures - the bottom left one especially.... and congratulations on blogging over seven thousand and fifty times.... 7050..... that has got to be amongst the highest bloggings around!! How's the wrist??

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  2. The wrist is swollen this morning and I'm feeling some pain. But it's nothing like what I was experiencing two or three weeks ago. I hope you and P. are doing okay.

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    1. Pauline ne va pas très bien... La maladie de Parkinson l'a réduite à l'état de coquille vide... Mais elle peut rester chez elle, dans un environnement familier, et aller chercher les livres, les CD, etc. qu'elle veut... Nous regardons aussi des vidéos... Mais seulement quand elle en est capable.
      Elle parle à voix basse et sa main droite est crispée, mais elle a trouvé le moyen de coincer une cuillère entre son pouce et son index. La maladie de Parkinson est une affection cruelle... Le comédien écossais Billy Connelly l'a décrite ainsi : « On vous donne toutes ces capacités à la naissance... puis soudain, quelqu'un arrive et vous dit que vous ne pouvez plus les avoir et vous les enlève ! Toutes les capacités de ma liste me sont volées les unes après les autres ! »
      Et il n'y a pas deux cas de Parkinson identiques... ce qui rend tous les traitements aléatoires... et nécessite des ajustements permanents... Le prochain rendez-vous de Pauline pour un ajustement est en janvier... elle en a manqué quatre pendant qu'elle était en maison de retraite parce que les lettres se sont égarées... elle a donc été hospitalisée pendant trois semaines.
      Mais elle est en bas, en train de lire son magazine de jardinage Rustica, en buvant un café, et je m'apprête à lui donner un sandwich au fromage et aux cornichons.
      Heureusement, pour l'instant, je vais bien... je pourrais perdre un peu de poids... mais rien de grave. Les seules pilules que je prends sont celles pour la tension artérielle le matin.

      Traduit avec DeepL.com (version gratuite) [which is teaching me more French than I thought I could learn - as is talking to our cleaner on Tuesdays and Pauline's care staff twice a day every day.... DeepL/Deep Immersion]

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    2. Let’s hope there’s a cure on the horizon for Pauline. Sometimes being the caregiver is just as difficult as it is for the care receiver. Stay strong and take care of yourself too.

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  3. I read your post about the Ed store, but I guess it's gone now. Congratulations on twenty years! Imagine how fast the next twenty will go lol!

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  4. Happy 20th Ken. I enjoy your writing and your photos!

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  5. Happy Anniversary! I enjoy your daily posting....especially the pictures. Linda from Alabama

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  6. Joyeux anniversaire! -- Chrissoup

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  7. Ken, congratulations on your 20 year blogging anniversary. That means I’ve been faithfully reading your blogs for 20 years. Yours and Walt’s are the ones I have consistently followed all this time. I may not have started on day 1 but I’m sure I went back to the beginning and caught up to where you were at the time. There’s only one other one that I read daily. However, when we travel to be with family, I fall behind but definitely catch up on returning home which is what I’m doing today. A day without reading your blog is a day without sunshine. Cheers. I hope that you physical troubles continue to get better. C.

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  8. Okay, I’m all caught up after being away. The pictures are absolutely brilliant! CHM would take exception to the carrots in the blanquette de veau, wouldn’t he? I can almost hear him as you have described him in previous blogs. C.

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