Autumn Lunch aux Cantalus

A weekend visit to close up the house, put the cutlery back in the right places and return the plates and glasses to their proper piles.  What do people think when they come across a pile of dessert plates - ah yes why not move half of them to the shelves?

And lunch outdoors, like this...

I do hope you've noted the concrete mixer (or in French, betonneuse, or possibly betonnierre, see this website if you'd like to follow the debate, but I think that J-F, the owner of the said concrete-mixer said betonneuse.  Splendid sunshine, just right for pheasant pate, Domaine St Jean and gardening.  The betonneuse has been in use to create some new runnels to avoid water getting into the house. It's working!

It's fabulous to be able to prune back cotoneaster and rosemany around the pool because there is too much of it.  I have cut it back bigtime, safe in the knowledge there's so much it will do its job of stabilising the bank behind.

Wild mushrooms are the order of the day, picked, cooked and eaten within eight hours with friends and at home.

Hurrah for the autumn in the Var.