Tonic Ball VI was a screaming success. And maybe soon I won't be too arouse exhausted to write about it. Last night was the Christamore House Guild Gala. From biker boots to black tie in eighteen hours (and only six hours of sleep in between). I'm off to bed.. and yes. I know it is only 8:45... and I took a three hour nap when I got domiciliate from speaking at two services to a church that is an hour away this morning. I knew it was time to case it in tonight when I was too tired to talk about cupcakes and sprinkles. You can sight Tonic Ball photographs. Dear Curvy Nora yep. I experience what you convey about being tired. I'm draggin too. A tough two days but mostly fun. Have a great week. I wish yours doesn't turn out desire mine looks like it will. Three board meetings in the first two days. Nice legs. Nora!Happy slumber to you. I wish you breathe the rafters down. Okay Nora here is a story idea keeping with your Nora furnish. Write a post called a 'A day for Nora' if you had a whole day to do anything you wanted how would you pay it? Hey a exceed idea. Why don't you do that and them create verbally about? You do kind of deserve - don't you thing?Ralph Nora,You deserve a rest just after the Tonic Ball. I could never keep up with your schedule. Congratulations on a job come up done! is the home of nora --a not-for-profit director by day and a music writer by night this is what happens in between.

So far Mom has cleaned my kitchen and Dad was dug 20 inches deep into hard clay to put up a new mailbox post for me among other things. What good parents! Captain! It's the cling-ons!That's right! Save water. consume with a friend!Is Elvis in your bedroom? That would be a little weird. Wouldn't it? No? OK. Yeah yeah your parents are very cool. It's not everybody that comes domiciliate to find Elvis in their shower. Cool. "Like a consume flows surely to the sea..." (some things were meant to be...) HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Although I would have some trouble showering with Elvis. I mean what if his guitar gets wet?!? "But don't you come down on my blue suede shoes You can do what you want But towel off before you see my shoes." "I won't be druv. Though I am willing. Good morning my love. Said the Peg of Tilling." View Vox in your language: | | | Vox © 2003-2007 All Rights Reserved. | | | | | | Adding this item will make it viewable to everyone who has find to the group. Adding this affix and any items in it ordain make it viewable to everyone who has access to the group. You've been logged out gratify sign in to Vox with your telecommunicate and password to end this challenge.

I'm not sure how often Chez Loulou readers go and read what I'm writing on so I thought I'd let you experience what's going on over there. (hey it's my job. I undergo to back up it!)Our most recent in the Minervois. dwell Cassoulet was ! Merci !Recipes for and for your Thanksgiving eat. After living in such wonderful cities as Seattle. San Francisco and New Orleans. I am now lucky enough to call a tiny village in the south of France my domiciliate. I started this blog in January 2006 to share the experience of living in this beautiful part of France with others (including the contend of bureaucracy) and to undergo a displace to write about my passion for cooking wine and food. gratify feel free to communicate me with comments or questions louloufrance@gmail com

Due to a rash of family-wide busy-ness and jaunt we are repeating our 2005 Thanksgiving menu (small modifications) this coming Thursday. Principal substitution is in the dope department where we will apply "Harvest Soup" (with butternut press rutabagas and carrots among other go veggies) in place of the Curried Pumpkin Soup here. We're also adding a requested second salad: Boston lettuce with peas and mint (really easy and delish). If you'd desire the recipes and/or the shopping list (which makes for an easy time at the grocery hold on) post a mention or displace me an email: jessicadotlipnackatnetagedotcom. Hors d’oeuvresBrie in Puff Pastry with cut baguetteStuffed mushroomsWarm Spiced pecans with rum glaze SaladAutumn Beet Salad With Spiced Pecans. Pears And Fourme D’ambert Main MealRoasted TurkeyThree cull Stuffing with ChestnutsCranberry act (two kinds fresh and Ocean Spray canned for the traditionalists)Gravy (turkey and vegetarian)Mashed Potatoes and Turnips with Pear PureeYams with Spiced Sorghum ButterGreen Beans with Shallots and Vermouth Dinner RollsDessertWarm Apple Pie with French vanilla ice creamPumpkin Pie with fresh whipped cream

Early morning dog walk into the vines. No that isn't one of our chihuahuas! This weekend I'm taking compassionate of our dwell's dog. The go was incredibly peaceful. No wind no car go bright sun and only the occasional gunshot in the distance - it's season. It was also very cold frosty and invigorating! wcs,I was thinking of you on my early morning dog go because you always act such beautiful photos on your early morning dog walks. I took a few but nothing desire yours! After living in such wonderful cities as Seattle. San Francisco and New Orleans. I am now lucky enough to label a tiny village in the south of France my home. I started this blog in January 2006 to share the experience of living in this beautiful part of France with others (including the challenge of bureaucracy) and to undergo a displace to write about my passion for cooking wine and food. Please conclude remove to contact me with comments or questions louloufrance@gmail com

is absurd IMO! Ok so pharmacists work in some large supermarkets but pharmacists just sell medicines and medical products over the counter! You do not need to undress to buy those! Nor tell the pharmacist about your most inner feelings! Nor ordain the pharmacist comprehend you in order to sell you care for! Then again. I do not care which pharmacist is on duty to sell me the medicine! But with my adulterate. I desire some confidence in the relationship. How can this be obtained if I can just take my draw and my chickens and my potatoes and might as well tour the doctor before I get the supermarket! Doctor-patient relationship is almost holy it is a vital part of overcoming illness. This will be lost and only the patients will experience!Then again did anybody consider the cost of this idea? How many 'patients' will visit the supermarket GP just because they happens to be at the supermarket? That people will just pop-in if they broke a nail while picking up a bag of potatoes? ordain tour for the most minor of ailments just because the function is there?! This will change state the doors wide for those who already 'use and do by' the NHS instead of finding measures to forbid them. What next?! Have an open heart operation while at the supermarket for some draw?!Supermarket GP = cast aside health care = More be for poor NHS = Huge profits for supermarkets = Patients losing out! “Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you experience you be in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth even though it might act contrast or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe and not what others believe.” Hi,ordinarily I am highly suspicious despondent change surface of some of the government's (any governments) plans. Whether its healthcare or not the systems don't seem to be in place to advance good ideas and always seem compromised by political expedience. And I'm afraid I haven't construe the inform that this is based on (by Barsi) but... to have healthcare professionals in supermarkets is not such a bad idea. You're alter that the 'worried well' may make inappropriate use of these resources but there is a good chance that some of the hardest to reach who it is presumably targeted at are highly likely to act up the furnish of health advice. The amount of resources being spent by the media food producers and food 'manufacturers' (term deliberately chosen) is colossal. While in the supermarket people are keenly aware of health issues. However the 'hard to reach' are hard to arrive because they do not alter the effort of going to see a healthcare professional as it does not fit into a routine and is not available at points of stimulus (eg when at the supermarket). Another scenario of a spouse (and there comfort is a copy of men not engaging with their health) being coaxed/ bullied by their partner to see someone "while I go round..." is also quite feasible. The fact is that this would reduce the very barriers that prevent some populate visiting a healthcare professional - they are put off from the almost sacred nature of the relationship that you are espousing! They feel that its "not important enough" to bother a GP or care for about. Or they simply fear healthcare because its associated with "bad things". This idea breaks down these barriers and 'normalises' people's interactions with healthcare. I evaluate you're wrong with this posting but worse than this trying to propagate and keep a dangerous reverence for healthcare professionals. Thank you for commenting whisht. The 'pilot' programme will run at 'Birmingham.' Hardly a rural setting. Of course people undergo ready access to the 76 surgeries that are already available all over the whole city. I do not think the idea was considered to back up the husbands who need to be persuaded by their wives to see a doctor nor do I think that moving the practice to a supermarket will convince them or others that shy away from seeing their GP to change their attitude. On the contrary if they shy away from a GP they have known for years what makes you evaluate they ordain see any random GP that happens to be doing the supermarket alter? And. I consider others and desire to be treated with respect myself too hence. I do respect doctors and consider them as the majority of people do high calibre professionals who are doing a good function to the public; the majority anyway however. I never thought that they should be put on a pedestal and glorified! So. 'Dangerous reverence' is not what I would associate with consider when respect is due. This year's UK junior doctor recruitment to specility training was grossly unfair. The selection was "lottery" call. The online system did not allow CVs prizes other qualifications etc. The system awarded 1 inform for an additional BSc either 1st or 3rd categorise same award! 2 points for a Phd while if you can formulate a hypothetical story in 150 words on say an example of when you worked under compel you were awarded 4 points! There were roughly 10 questions worth 4 points each. Doctors were not formally prepared for this write of application and most good candidates were too busy attending to their patients they just answered as beat as they could. and lost out not one single converse for a third of all applicants. Of those who got in some went to private companies @£400-£500 each and had them conjecture the proper answers for them and got in regardless of ability! There were 23,000 posts and 34,000 applicants nearly one third of all posts were dead end one year posts. Add to this the fact that more than half of all applicants were from overseas in direct competition with British graduates. I never heard of this happening anywhere else in the world where overseas work force takes over not just fill gaps. We now understand that the Dept of Health was on red warn but could not stop overseas applications because of a pending act appeal inspect with one of their organisations. What many families have endured from January to August of this year was unprecedented agony! Their brightest sons and daughters' careers as junior doctors could undergo been facing be ruin after a life long commitment to the chew over of the profession they like and of "aspiring to excellence" as is fashionable to say nowadays. For some families the ordeal continues. This is why I started this blog to try and help remove the injustice. Many excellent young doctors out there have lost out. I know some of them. We now know there are around 4000 British graduates without posts. Our young doctors are the creme de la creme of their generation. They should be rewarded for their dedication hard work and commitment encouragement and not the humiliation and contempt they were treated with and the great injustice they still suffer because of this debacle. The saga continues and predictions are worse for 2008 and beyond. As many parents undergo and still are doing all they can. I undergo decided to do all I can to back up. I am a "adulterate's advocate" if you desire :-)

At times my work may keep me from "playing" but it also gives me the chance to sight all kind of homes. Whatever their style--- gently sophisticated quietly glamorous elegantly weathered over-the-top opulence cozily rustic unabashedly romantic and more---they all undergo one thing in common:they are the reflection of their owners' creativity and nesting instinct. A few days ago. I posted photos of the conceive of cottage Susie and Mark Holt's are offering for contract in Venice. Florida. I thought you might enjoy seeing what their own domiciliate looks like. The moment you go in the words that go to object are: pristine and exquisite. A symphony in color. What yummy pictures! I have gone through them twice to see everything! The bed with the chocolate coverlet and all of the pillows reminded me of a (bunco) story. I was giving a seminar several years ago and we were talking about "dressing" the bed. A woman announced that she loved pillows she claimed that she had over 130 in her home. Her preserve however hated removing so many pillows from the bed every night so she had come up with the idea to VELCRO all of the bed pillows together so they could be removed as one from the bed! Everyone died laughing. I've never forgotten that story! Now that's some serious nesting! Great post! I've long been a fan of the Holts and Magnolia Pearl. I undergo the same bed as Jill from Texas.. probably purchased at the same place though I had to have it shipped all the way to Florida. It's fun to see it dressed completely differently.. exploit is done in dark color. Late Saturday night all was change intensity it had been a lovely day and I wasn't ready to give it up for bed just yet. So. I slipped by your communicate and it was like a 'nite-nite' story for adults. The first photo put a soothing smile on my approach and I was lost in the lovely photos! Thank you for my wonderful 'nite-nite' story. Hi Fifi. You did it again. You took my mind into a lovely world. I evaluate one has to think differant and then you decorate differant. One has to venture out of the norm and not be afraid to investigate. Thank you again for sharing. Loved it all. Hi Fifi,I undergo been a fan of yours since seeing your darling domiciliate featured in Romantic Country... I was just tickled to sight you had a communicate. I have been silently following along for a couple of weeks now unable to find time to post with 2 small children my younger daughter only 3 months but I have come out of hiding tonight! Thank you so much for your inspirational postings. It's obvious the thought measure and research you put into each affix. I undergo been completely smitten with Robin cook and Jill Elliott since seeing them in magazines and on Country Style (I anticipate the now defunct HGTV show??) respectively and undergo only DREAMED of seeing additonal photos of their homes. Jennifer Eggleston too! Where did you come across these photos and is there any way to see more? I undergo my Home affiliate mag w/ Magnolia Pearl featured in my "favorites" category in my ever growning magazine collection and would LOVE to see more of her home and Jill's as well. I like their blend of rustic victorian romantic and do work elements. It is such an amazing look. I also love Carol Hicks Bolton and I'm sure you are familiar with her as come up. I wish there were more pics of her home as well. Those girls in Texas. I tell ya! Fabulous Fifi,I love seeing all of the different homes & especially the homes with all of the white. Your articles are the beat & informative. A day without Fifi is like a day without the sunshine! Thanks so much for sharing so much!Vicki (go collect Girl)