2nd November

I had a really bad night last night. It was so windy, and raining heavily too. Definitely a day to stay put today. It’s even too horrid to go to the library to get these voting forms printed. I’ll go on Monday.

I did a lot of writing today whilst listening to the Off Menu podcast. One of the episodes I listened to was the menu of Sophie Duker, a comedian who appears regularly at the Edinburgh Fringe so we must put her on the list of “to do’s” for next year!

During the podcast, James Acaster asks (well yells actually) “poppadoms or bread?” And the guest has to choose one or the other. Sophie chose bread. She then began to explain that she lived in France for 12 months a few years back, with French people, and she addressed something that has been on my mind for the last week or so.

The French baguette is one of life’s most delicious things. A fresh, well made baguette is like nectar. It is also, for that very reason, very difficult to stop eating it until it’s done. And they are rather long! So consequently, I have been eating far too much bread- and therefore butter and jam and cheese. In my defence this is partly because, as confirmed by Sophie, if a baguette is left over until the following day then it is stale and hard and not pleasant and so gets thrown away. This is what I was occasionally doing too and I hate wasting food- so instead I just kept on eating!

So, every day, this was me……….

Until a few days ago, in the supermarket, I decided not to buy a lovely baguette, but instead purchased a horrid, processed sliced loaf. Ok, it’s not that bad- it’s along the lines of a Warburton’s white loaf- but it ain’t no baguette! So now, I’m eating less bread and I’m not wasting any either. But it feels wrong. However, during her discussion about bread, Sophie confirmed that the French too eat this rubbish bread if the baguette is stale, the boulangerie is closed etc, almost keeping it in reserve- and now I don’t feel too bad! But still feel like I’m missing out 😦

However, if I was greeted by this man every day at the boulangerie……..

Then I’d eat it until I was the size of a house!!!

FaceTime with Charlotte this evening- England lost to South Africa in the Rugby World Cup Final today 32-12 but a good time was still had by all!

Going to go to Fossé tomorrow if the weather is ok

Bonne nuit 🙂