What no Cheese?

Market day again but apart from buying some flowers, all we did was have a glass of wine with Michel. Had lunch in the bar in the village and a lazy afternoon in preparation for an evening with the neighbours. Nicole did the apéritifs, Jack provided the meat and Gérard barbequed it, Geneviève made a salad with mixed leaves and flowers from her garden, André made a strawberry sorbet and Anna made a wicked chocolate for which I must get the recipe. We took whiskey and a bottle of champagne to toast Jacques and Pierre's birthdays. You'll notice that there was no cheese course which Christian made the recurring theme of the evening. Our host is not into cheese, nor wine come to that which is pretty strange for a Frenchman. Still, the evening wasn't just about food,  wit, wisdom and hilarity were also dispensed in full measure.