24th-30th August:
How quickly the days go especially when there's the garden to tend, the computer to comandeer and jam to make. There was also lunch with Rowena, Maggie for dinner after the council meeting, Didier who turned up out of the blue after several years of no contact, rugby and dinner chez Philippe and Danielle. Our first wild boar of the season and it was delicious. Cooked for several hours in a low oven, the meat just melted in your mouth. Have just reaslised that I haven't taken any photos this week. Don't know why.
23rd August:
Les Parigos left today and the house was suddenly calm and empty. What else was there to do but pick up on old habits and get off to the market. In the afternoon we packed an overnight bag and set off for St Lorenç as a belated birthday treat. After a bottle of champagne on our terrace, David served us up a super meal, full of variety and interesting touches. Breakfast was good too which we ate on the downstairs terrace looking out over the wooded slopes opposite.
With the whole day in front of us we decided to go up to a sanctuary at 1130m. Needless to say the views are just magnificent and there was even a hang-glider waiting very patiently for lift off. Had lunch there but it was very ordinary and didn't make up for all the religious stuff round about. Still, as I said, the views are just breathtaking. A little nap under the shade of a tree on the way down and an icecream on the back road home.
22nd August:
At long last, a drop of rain and after Michelle and I had watered the garden last night. This evening it was another sort of garden on show as it was the vernissage(opening) of an exhibition entitled "roses and gardens" by a local artist. There were the usual speeches, chat and apéritif. Michelle and Jean-Jacques came back with us for another apéritif and took pot luck for dinner.21st August:
I'm all for encouraging young people to cook, so today Leo's offer to cook "Poulet Coco"was received with great pleasure and he didn't disappoint. Elsa and I made a mars bar chocolate cereal crunch cake to round off the meal and the hips. Last year Leo had decided that when he leaves school he would like to have an award winning restaurant but sadly for us, this year he wants to be a designer. Ah well, you can't win 'em all. 
After the meal, Christian and I took a wander down to the recreation ground to watch the sardane. There were lots of dancers, plenty of spectators, a bar and raffle that we didn't win. This Saturday is the last organised dance, a sure sign that summer is coming to an end, not that you'd know it with the temperatures that we're having.
20th August:
Thérèse laid on a great apéritif dinatoire for 10 of us in her garden which ended with a surprise round of "happy birthday" for me!19th August:
Yippee! Frank and Stéphanie in the kitchen so that left me free to go to the bar while Christian was at his meeting. What a team. They came up with a great meal and Papa found a bottle of champagne in the cave to celebrate the forthcoming nuptials.Apéro ~ a variety of toasts with champagne
Roast Tomato Millefeuilles with a Château de Ruth, Côte du Rhone
Veal with crumble topping and a medley of vegetables
Chocolate Gâteau
Rounded the evening off with several games of "Jungle Speed" which is good fun for all ages if you're reflexes are better than mine.
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