A spot of lunch

Yesterday we needed to pop into Bar-sur-Seine to pick some wood up for the doors Brian is about to make for the library. We had thought about trying to reclaim some doors, maybe from an old wardrobe or old armoire, but although we’d found some beautiful pieces of furniture on our visits to the local charity and depot ventes we did not find anything that really suited.

So, Brian has drawn up a plan to make them, and has already found the planks to make the frames from his wood store, but we still needed to buy some wood for the panels he will inset.

We headed off to Weldom, our local DIY store, to buy the wood which we had already ordered via the internet. When we arrived it was ready and waiting for us on a trolley to load into our car.

With the wood in the back, Brian suggested we head to a favourite restaurant of ours—Le Jardin des Tonnelles—for a spot of lunch before heading home. What a perfect idea. After a couple of cheese gougeres each, to entice our taste buds, we tucked into our main courses. Brian had ordered the rabbit with a tarragon sauce, and I had the kidneys with little roast potatoes.

A very impromptu lunch, my favourite kind, and all very delicious.