French Lunch

Today we had lunch at my brother's place. It was prepared by his French friend and she did a fabulous job. Entree was garlic prawns with a French Chablis , mains was Coq au Vin with vin ordinaire and desert creme caramel, it was simply delicious. French wines are much more delicate than ours almost to the point of blandness. We are so used to big, bold wines in Australia. Our sister came all the way from Para Vista and it was great to see her and the photos she took of her son and little grand daughter in Melbourne where she went last weekend to celebrate his 30th birthday.It was a great afternoon and we all went home toward dusk to feed the chooks and lock them up.

We have just come in from watching the Almond Festival fire works display, I do love fireworks and OOH and AAH like a 4 year old, if I had thought about it we could have had a better view from the road and taken some great shots with Brian's new camera. The birds in the trees were not happy at all!! This morning I could hear the grey thrush calling out in that bell like tone , so it could well be that it has really taken up residence here. I also saw four goldfish again in the pond, I wonder if there are any smallfry too. The above is a bit bigger than a goldfish and was the first trout Greg caught on the Tantangara dam way back in the 1960ies