Meeting a Blogger and a Repas

Last Friday, we had the pleasure of meeting blogger Kerry and her husband Roger.  They were only staying here in France for a week, taking a short, but active, break.  

We invited them for evening drinks and snacks on this, their last full day before making the drive home; we just hit it off immediately and talked and talked, until we suddenly realised it was almost 23h00 (!) and they had a long drive ahead of them.  They are such lovely people, and I am glad that they have a local place to stay, whenever they can make a visit; we hope we will get the chance to meet up again in the not too distant future.  We seem to have a lot in common and they love France and cycling.  Please take a look at Kerry's blog HERE if you love crafts; she makes the most beautiful cards.  Also you might be lucky and get a bit of news about France there as well.

Roger and Kerry.
Sorry Kerry, in the other photo you were smiling beautifully but the flash caught your glasses quite badly! 

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Yesterday we went to a "repas", which translates pretty much as a meal.  This was a lunch at St Adjutory, organised  by the leisure group of which we are members.  We understood that just over 80 people were expected at the village's Community Hall and arrival time was 12h00.  The cost was a modest €12 each, which included food, wine and of course, great company.

The menu offered six courses, as you can see below, but I forgot to take photos of the first 3 courses!!  First course was a glass of kir - sweet wine. Next up was the asparagus soup - delicious, and in unlimited quantity; I think we all had second helpings!  The filet de lieu was quite a large  piece of fish,  served with a  moulded circular "cake" (the word ecaille literally means "shell") and tomato sauce; the cake seemed to comprise tiny slivers of cucumber in a courgette mixture; it was delicious. 

The main course of tender pork fillet cooked in a  mustard sauce, with a stuffed potato and vegetables, at which point I  remembered my camera ........

This was followed by cheese and salad and of course in France there is always a constant supply of crusty French bread, to eat as and when you want.

Raspberry mousse followed this, and the meal finished with  coffee.

Nigel took this photo of  my neighbour and me at the meal; I cannot remember now what caused quite this much laughter, but at this point it was late afternoon and we were definitely having a good time!! They organise these lunches every 3 months, so we had better get into training!

Note that the lovely earrings and necklace that I am wearing here were made by another blogger friend Jean. She has a number of blogs, but the one with the jewellery is HERE while her mostly French blog is HERE

As always click on photos to enlarge. 

For 'My Life Before the Charente' see HERE