tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post795098868422403104..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: leaf, unchanging, floweringAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-9174980548239295632009-02-27T21:54:00.000+00:002009-02-27T21:54:00.000+00:00We have a green one (a wedding gift also). It cook...We have a green one (a wedding gift also). It cooks a very tender lamb shank (for him) and a flavour rich veg. tagine (for me).<BR/>It bloody hurts when dropped on a toe!herhimnbrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01182397064631016552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-29228858188523190372009-02-27T16:51:00.000+00:002009-02-27T16:51:00.000+00:00I still recall your belief that the first pint of ...I still recall your belief that the first pint of Guiness doesn't count. Though I don't remember the telephone call, it must have been the Guiness talking to the Le Creuset press office on that occasion.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-13086090577447187432009-02-26T17:30:00.000+00:002009-02-26T17:30:00.000+00:00The idea is persuasive and when asked Mrs BB, hedg...The idea is persuasive and when asked Mrs BB, hedging her bets, said "It could well be." I can't remember either but it seems very likely. At the time we had one of our own and its status with us was mythical. So much so that when I started blogging, nearly forty years later, my second or third post featured the Le Creuset. There is an Earth Mother quality to this vessel; the sense that it will never deliver up anything unsatisfactory. And if I'm not mistaken here in Hereford it presently contains this evening's meal - a sausage casserole.<BR/><BR/>It is of course the vessel of the chattering classes but then, somewhat reluctantly, I've had to accept I belong to that segment of the population. And it is also famous for never being discounted; it does ostensibly appear in special offers but on closer examination these turn out to be chimerical.<BR/><BR/>It also features in a Bowling Green Lane anecdote. Back from a Guinness-rich lunch one Friday afternoon, we discovered from a copy of <EM>La Manutention</EM> that Le Creuset in some way or another was entering the industrial field later identified as logistics. Quite authoritatively you picked up the phone, called them in Fresnoy-le-Grand, asked for the press office and hectored them in Sevenoaks French for details. The results were inconclusive but this didn't diminish the heroic impulse.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com