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Saturday 28th October 2017 - Apremont.

We woke to a lovely clear blue sky.  We thought the weather might have turned but we are still being lucky with the sunshine.

Today was a big decision day.  I had to decide who was the top blog reader of 2017.  It was a difficult decision as there were some close contenders for the title.  I would like to thank all the regular readers for their loyal support.  This years award goes to Josette from France and here is the award ceremony....

The prize was a homemade scone, jam and cream.

Josette is a friend of David and Wendy who lives at St Gilles Croix de Vie.  She attends the English Conversation classes with David and Wendy and she is a regular reader of my blogs over several years, she deserves a medal rather than a scone.  I met her for the first time as we visited her at her lovely home.  I felt she knew too much about me already....probably not a good thing!  She has excellent English language and could even understand me!  She certainly seemed to enjoy hearing stories about David and I growing up.  We had a super morning coffee.

We spent the rest of the day at Bretignolles-sur-Mer and had a little picnic and a long walk along the beach.

This is evidence in the domestic violence case against David!

We took this picture because it reminded us of our younger brother, Peter....


Back to Apremont we prepared the meal for the evening.  We had aperros - snails in garlic butter.

Janice wasn't over impressed with the thought of eating the snails with some left over boudin noir and olives.

David did the main course, paella and I tried making a brioche bread and butter pudding, under the supervision of Wendy as I have never made one before.

Bread and butter pud with home grown raspberries.....lovely.  It could become a regular dessert.

We finished the night with a competitive fan of dominoes. 

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