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The last supper, eh? Good luck, you know you can do it,

Ballerina x

Janeg's wet fish lives for another day then? Good news

Only if it has some parsley on the side,

Ballerina x

One for the boys, French tarts

Very nice french tarts, not quite the one we wanted to see....

Patience, patience! And BIG thanks to Moogie for posting the photograph for me.

Ballerina x

catching up with this thread is my morning treat, only to be read after early morning walk and/or garden chores. Today is beautiful, sunny and just finished a couple of hours gardening. Made my espresso and now I want one of those French tarts (and I'm NOT a boy!). Can I have the one that looks like it is a clafouti? Please?!!

This looks a bit like a 'cafe gourmand' - only without the 'cafe' !!!

Is this an 'hors d'oeuvre' then Ballerina for the 'plat du jour' ???

Cooo-eeeee...*waves from France too*.
Only not a nice hot sunny one
We are at a lovely campsite in Brittany with free wifi (well, I do have to keep in touch with you lot!). We are in the company of many Dutch (all very ernest fellows) and a rather elderly French couple who go everywhere arm in arm (ahhh).

I had the most disappointing meal EVER on Brittany ferries on Friday. I'd 'saved' myself for the evening meal and planned on chicken (no chips) and veg. The chicken was some old bird that had been over to France and back several times. The peas had been put on to cook that morning and the ratatouille was watery. We made it to the campsite a mile from the ferry port at Ouistreham and I was so hungry, I could have eaten a scabby dog.
There were non of them, so I raided the blue cheeses and ham (I know how to live!)

I was tres good on the drive yesterday and we stopped for our pique-nique in an aire - none of Ballerina's tarts in sight!

So far, it's been salad and barbes since we arrived.
Pas de pain! Pas de patisserie! Pas des extra pounds!

"some old bird that had been over to France and back several times."

Ahem, 'cough' Come on girl, spit it out, say what you mean

Ballerina x

Silverdarling, yes, it does look like that but it is the little 'tarts of the night' that we bought. We have had cafe gourmand and love them but sometimes they are just too much.

We had a lovely lunch overlooking the sea, watching all the expensive boats, loaded up with tarts and other assorted temptations on board. Afterwards we slowly walked along the promenade. As we passed one restaurant we saw a couple who had clearly had a rather boozy lunch and it looked as though the wine had gone to their heads, as well as other parts of their anatomies. They were getting ever so slightly amorous with each other and he was trying to stick his hand down her top, we laughed at each other and I jokingly said, "Don't even think about it!", he looked quite shocked and replied, "I've never seen the lady in my life before, what makes you think I'd do that to someone I'd not been formally introduced to?" Oh, well that's alright then!

Ballerina x

"some old bird that had been over to France and back several times."

Ahem, 'cough' Come on girl, spit it out, say what you mean

Ballerina x

Well, as I see it, you're some slim young woman and I'm an old trout, so that count us both out.

Unless you have leathery skin, shriveled legs and a wing,.....

We dont know cos she wussed out on posting the photo!
Perhaps.........

Good morning PennyForthem,

Thank you for that, it must be my childish brain that makes you think I am young. Here goes, I am 65, can't believe I just typed that, not because I am embarrassed about my age but because I REALLY cannot understand how I got this old! Where did the years go to? I have a birthday next month which means that in just four short years I shall be 70, good God, this is getting worse. I definitely fall into the 'old trout' category so Janeg can officially use me as a head smacking implement, with or without the bit of parsley on the side. Fancy that, I've turned into the one food I hate, hubs is now a little pork pie but he enjoys those.

What can I say about the skin, yuk, wrinkles so deep you could plant potatoes in them except we are trying to limit our carbs, bingo wings that scream 'HOUSE' (or whatever they say in bingo halls)and a face that only a mother could love, but, in spite of all his failings I wouldn't trade him for all the tea in China, probably because I only drink coffee. Oh, that was naughty, of course I meant me, sadly. The only good thing these days is that I am now back to my 'young woman' weight and that has been a huge boost to my morale but, because of lots of new clothes, our bank account has taken a huge hit, hooray

Have a great day and I shall see you all back here later,

Ballerina x

P.S. Julie, if I can persuade pork pie man to do another DavidBbailey impersonation I promise you will get a photograph but without the swimsuit, oh, I mean with clothes ON, goodness, I'm getteing dafter by the minute in this heat!

Thanks Ballerina, age is only a number. I really enjoy your posts, often laugh out loud funny, and I also admire the easy relationship with your lovely husband.

Congatulations on getting back to your young woman weight, gives all of us inspiration