Thirty Years

 Monday 13 March was our thirtieth wedding anniversary. 

Though it does not seem like yesterday, still the years have gone by very fast. 

This represents :

30 years of marriage.

28 years with Gwilym, our son.

26 years with Catrin.

32 years in pastoral ministry. (I left BT on March 1st 1991). This is half my life.

We have now completed 17 years, six months in France. We arrived in September 2005. 

Most of our married life has been spent in France.

We celebrated by going to a local restaurant. It's really classy. At lunchtime they do a "Menu du Marché", which comprises :

Amuses-bouche salées - there was a wafer with a cheese filling, an olive ice-cream and a mouthful of capsule of mussels in a gel coating. All very good.

Starter - I had asparagus cream while Pat had a "lentil cappuccino".

Main course - we both chose filet mignon with caramelised carrots, a gratin of potatoes and a beetroot purée.

Dessert - mine was three little choux pastries while Pat got a chocolate chestnut "bombe".

Amuses-bouche sucrés - a lovely little macaroon and another ice-cream, this time of hazelnut, I think.

We've been there before twice, always at lunchtime, for this menu at 24€. For food like that it's a great deal, and they put a lot of effort into it.

The waitress said, "You know that we're open in the evening, too, with menus at 58€ and 65€?"

I promised to come back in the evening for our fiftieth anniversary !