Thursday 8/23

We were invited for lunch with Jeanne and Bertrand and their houseful, and enjoyed a delicious vegetable terrine a la Pauline, ham, pate, fruit and bread and fruit. Then we invited Jeanne to join us for a trip to the depot vente – consignment store – in Lucon. Jeanne had a slow start, but then found a teapot and a bedspread, then a set of forks and knives in silver, then a complete set of flatware in silverplate, which in France includes not only teaspoons and soupspoons, but little coffee spoons. I found a set of 12 small silver spoons – they will pack well and won’t break! A good time as had by all, even if we again failed to find our guidebook, and it continued to rain.