We had a nice, reasonably quiet New Years eve. The mechoui was a success, Claire brought over some amazing oysters and smoked salmon and the champagne & bordeaux just kept coming. At midnight we took a couple of flutes over to our amazing neighbours brothers family. Our neighbours are in Egypt, but M’s twin brother is housesitting with his wife & three children over the christmas/NY period, and we wanted to welcome them and wish them a happy new year. They were as kind as we could have hoped, they invited us in, invited us to visit them in Brest one day, and invited us to share their selection of ‘Stohrer’ delicacies….

Even more, New Years Day, we finally got out of bed around midday, made coffee and were about to go out to find some bread or croissants, and what do you know? Open the front door, and there on the step was a little package for us. A baguette & three croissants, fresh that day.

I’ve told you once before, we have the best neighbours ever, well this now extends to our neighbours family. I don’t know how we got so lucky, but I’m so very glad.