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[blissgirl]

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[TallTrees]

Glad you enjoyed it @Oxonian 

Funnies are great for happiness 😊 

[Cleoriff]

Great photos @TallTrees. Really made me laugh 😂

[Cleoriff]

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@TallTrees wrote:

A bee smile

 A freebee 😄

 

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Love it @TallTrees 🤣

[TallTrees]

I like the Hippo hair @Cleoriff  😂

[TallTrees]

Saw this article and thought 

 

POPPADOM HEAVEN  😊

[TallTrees]

Interesting cheese 🧀 

I haven't seen this in shops but apparently it is big from France to Brazil 

SHROPSHIRE BLUE

 

 Fromagerie Laurent Dubois, which has five outlets in Paris, stocks the eye-catching Shropshire Blue cheese 

I like blue cheese.  Apparently 

Shropshire Blue is slowly gaining  as an alternative to Stilton. A dark yellow colour, almost golden-brown but fudgy and it is buttery and creamy and mild, with delicate, peppery blue veins throughout so it boasts. 

[pgn]

Never was a fan of veined cheeses, @TallTrees 

https://www.theethicaldairy.co.uk/cheese-shop/ethical-cheeseboard-no-blue

Alas, shipping cheeses from Great Britain to Northern Ireland has become a bit restricted, the company above ships to Scotland (including the islands) and Wales and England.

Just look at the way a cheese retailer located in Ireland has to work to make sure cheese shipped to anywhere on the island of Ireland does not get hammered by shipping delays, additional freight costs, etc:

* As our website can’t distinguish between Northern Ireland and UK, select "Ireland" as the delivery country in the checkout process, if you want an order to be sent to an address in Northern Ireland. This will save you freight costs. Then in the post code field, enter the Eircode V95 HD70 of the Burren Smokehouse. Enter Lisdoonvarna as the city/town. Make sure to enter the real delivery address details in the other address lines so that we know where to send the order. We will then manually change it to the right delivery address in our system.

[Oxonian]

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@TallTrees wrote:

Interesting cheese 🧀 

I haven't seen this in shops but apparently it is big from France to Brazil 

SHROPSHIRE BLUE

 

 Fromagerie Laurent Dubois, which has five outlets in Paris, stocks the eye-catching Shropshire Blue cheese 

I like blue cheese.  Apparently 

Shropshire Blue is slowly gaining  as an alternative to Stilton. A dark yellow colour, almost golden-brown but fudgy and it is buttery and creamy and mild, with delicate, peppery blue veins throughout so it boasts. 

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I love cheese @TallTrees but prefer to stick to "plain" varieties ; Cheddar, Cheshire, Lancashire and the like. 😀  

[TallTrees]

That cheesemaker reads "delicious" @pgn 

Actually I like "Danish Blue" best.

Brie is lovely too and it comes blue too 😄

Sorry to read such difficulties.  Leaving Europe U. caused much hardship and cost. 

Many farms now make cheese along side their main farming business.  Goats cheese popular, not for me though.

[Oxonian]

Without getting into politics @pgn, that was undoubtedly a downside of Brexit. 👍