No idea and never tried to smoke 
ā¦bad punā¦
Sometimes suspect that these days architects are the only ones left who can draw (despite AutoCAD etc). Actually observed drawing, is still good training for 3D CAD modelling as understanding how light falls makes it all more convincing.
Know GSA much better than ECA, but published an article in their research mag about twenty years ago and have a friend up the Lot whoās an ECA alumna (long before your time)
Joking apart, it was an amazing discipline to use so many types of media to draw and sculpt and āsketchingā and drawing by hand was de rigueur before computers.
Glasgow was the place I agreeā¦
But within my experience as an academic, was somewhat dodgyā¦
AutoCad is old hat now a days. especially in 3D, I can implement light calculations in 3D and the nomenclatures with a couple of clicks in Revit, I think you can do the same with ArchiCad, Bentley & Tekla etc.
Youāre not far from me, +/- 50km. If you have time to visit Vezelay 89450 Itās well worth a detour.
We could meet up for lunch, coffee / beer etc.
But not Chablis?
Iāll have to look in the cellar, there must be a bottle or 2 
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My architect son spent 40 days touring France with his partner and 6 month old baby last June/July. He took an hour or so out every day to sketch a local feature. I know Iām biased but it was a fantastic souvenir of their trip. Sitting here now Iām looking at a lovely sketch of this house that he did a couple of years ago.
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Surely a man of your horticultural talents could grow some ? Itās really easy to make from the root but you have to be careful getting the strength right. You also need to keep the plant well under control as it can spread alarmingly.
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When I buy these cheeses from the man at the local market I always ask for the oldest most mature version.
One day I asked for a Camembert for a special recipe and the cheese man asked if I wanted an old one. I was surprised because I thought Camembert only came ready to go in a little box and were all the same.
He started opening each Camembert box and studied the cheese closely.
āYou must know a lot about cheeseā I said, āwhat are you looking for? ā¦ the smell, the texture, the colour?ā
āNo ā he replied āIām just checking the sell by dateā
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Only a good strong teabag. Disappointed with what used to be favourites years back when trying them recently. I have had a thing lately for McVities digestives and my local Super U sells them very reasonably priced and their taste has not waned at all but the chocolate ones I donāt like now at all along with Cadbury products - just too greasy and not like proper chocolate we get here.
I used to get Sarsonās malt vinegar and Raifort which is horseradish in GĆ©ant/Casino previously but no longer trading now. Have you got an international supermarket where you live that sells all sorts of stuff from all over the world? We found one here in town but you have to pay high prices.
I have gotten used to the weak dusty tea-bags but when folk come over from the Island, I ask that they bring some proper black tea.
I was very happy to see that McVities Sables Anglais are popular here though!.
Found this place in Irland and they ship nice Irish tea plus other things:
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I am going off them very quickly, just using up stock then back to proper tea, not to mention the micro plastics in the bag that we take to 100c to brew
Weāve been buying from Bacon by the Box for a few years. The delivery charge is overcome by ordering for English friends in the area which means we reach the limit comfortably.
We have found their sausages and sausage meat to be excellent. I usually buy a few packets of the sausage meat, make sausage rolls and freeze them for snacks and suppers.
We havenāt tried their bacon but friends say it is the best they have ever had so maybe our next order will include some smoked back bacon.
We donāt eat beef so canāt comment on the quality but again friends have bought some and says it takes like āreal beefā.
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Really cheerful news todayā¦ getting a little further on our āFamily Reunion/Holiday in UKā planning for later this year.
Phewā¦ only taken about 2 hours to book 4 different hotels on-lineā¦
and theyāre all in Franceā¦(2 going-up and 2-coming-back 
not even got to the UK Hotel list yetā¦ 
But I must admit that my excitement is mounting, at the prospect of seeing some very dear folk (young and old) ā¦ one of whom is 103 and is āhanging-in-thereā until we arrive 
EDIT: I plan to bring some Sharwoods mango chutney back with usā¦ thatās about the only thing we miss nowadays.
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You may have missed my thread, Iāve recently started making it and its amazing and super easy! You can also get it at the big eLeclerc in Boulazac 
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Our local SuperU has it too.
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