Mono Monday

The challenge today is France or French. Well I have been racking my brain to think what I had that was connected to France…chocolates? No. Champagne? No. A beret? No. Maybe a book, now there is a possibility there is something I can use. After trawling through some mostly unused bookshelves I found these treasures and the tea towel was a gift from Isbi which was in the tea towel drawer as you would expect. 

I’ve been to France twice, the first time with the family in 1976 when we spent a week with Dad’s cousin Gerry who lived in Paris. The next time was a day trip from a cruise to Aix en Provence. I remember having a delicious lunch in an outdoor courtyard where there was an old trough dated 1400s. My schoolgirl French has mostly evaporated but I have recently taught myself to play the national anthem. Luckily blip doesn’t have a musical connection. 

The extra is the first book Ann Cleeves wrote back in 1986. You can really notice her inexperience in those days, the later ones are much better.