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Nope, raw with Stilton, walnuts and rocket (that's arugula for any heathens reading this)…..
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Got into some golden Chanterelles, Lobster mushroom, and Reishi. Great day in the mountains with the family!
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Very cool G!
And happy birthday!!
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Hey @Brock where'd you learn to pick mushrooms? That's awesome!
@Giles are you going to tell us anything about this lovely object or are you going to make us wait for the airing of the show?
A combination of making friends with local foragers on IG and self learning from books.
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@Giles are you going to tell us anything about this lovely object or are you going to make us wait for the airing of the show?
The short version.
We live in what was the Superintendent's House, for the Royal Clarance Victualling Yard. The guy who the house was originally built for was Thomas Grant.
In 1844, the King of the French (we could not bring ourselves to call him the King of France) came on a state visit to the UK. Royal Clarence Yard was where he arrived and was supposed to depart from. On the day of his departure a storm brewed up and he could not get out to his Royal Yacht.
Thomas Grant was told to get rid of his house guests (who had come to see the amazing celebrations) because Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Lous Phillipe and a few other notables were coming for tea, whilst they waited for the storm to abate.
As a thank you, Queen Victoria gave Thomas Grant a silver-gilt Tazza made by Garrads of London (the royal silversmith at the time) engraved with her, Alberts and Louis Phillipe's cyphers, plus the date of the storm.
Paula tracked the Tazza down a few years ago and gave it to me as a present.
A bit more about Royal Clarence Yard here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Clarence_YardAnd more about that day:
https://www.rcmra.co.uk/post/2014/11/28/the-week-when-rcy-was-global-news -
The first shop I went into in Gosport was the local art gallery. Richard the owner who is a bit of a local historian had bought it at auction in the West Country in 1996. He sold it to a customer in about 2001. Richard has become a good friend and was at AR with us yesterday. Paula badgered him to get the buyer to sell it to us. The guys said no, and then a few years later phoned Richard up and said, "you know what it lives under the stairs, it deserves to be in The Superintendents House, tell Paula I will sell it to her for what I paid for it"….So she bought it....
