Gradually feeling less strange. The mornings are slower to warm up, but they do and cardies are not yet required! Today we fell back into the old routine and took Octavia for a bath at the Ste Cécile carwash.
Following this it was an emergency loo roll shop in the adjacent U Express…ironic name. The queues for the only two operational checkouts were lengthy and people were there with trolleys stacked high. Woman in front of us first of all paid by counting her sous carefully from her purse then had no bag so had to cram her purchases into flimsy plastic jobs at the same time as the operative was shunting our stuff past them. But we were Cool Man. This is what we came for!
And yes, lunch at L’As de Coeur. We arrived at one minute to 12. There were tables, the mulberries are still in leaf. Annaëlle (mother of Elsa) remembered us. David remembered us. We were content. Good menu - melon and Parma ham and Veal Archduke for Him, Goat’s cheese salade and Monkfish Armoricaine for me followed by panacottas various for pud.
And then we were presented with a free melon. A bit of an Allan Thomas situation. They get so many from a neighbour that they can’t use them all!
We rounded off the outing with a drive up to Rabais Sud and potter among the vines.
Not yet harvested and looking quite plump.
