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Sorry it has taken me so long to “blog” but life was a little hectic over the weekend what with feeding and entertaining 50 friends and then moving out of our house at 10am the next day and so we have been recovering slowly! I want to say a big “thank you” to everyone who eventually came along on Saturday night to our house, and not to the beach in the end. It was a difficult decision to make as we were so disappointed to move the venue at the last minute but I have to say it was a good call as the weather turned sour.

The night was a huge success thanks to the crowd of people who showed up. Such an eclectic bunch, it was a joy for us to entertain you all in our house. Talking of entertaining I thought that Mike and Vonney were fantastic, thanks you guys for bringing your instruments and talent for us all to share.  Just wondering now how and when to do the next supper club.  We will post a date as soon as we have a plan so keep watching.

Now we are in Cannes and loving it.  The beach is a stone throw away and we are right in the middle of Le Suquet.  This is the place to “people watch” The character’s of Cannes are in abundance here in Le Suquet and my morning run is a lot of fun thanks to the joggers and “folk” I meet along the way.  When I lived in Bournemouth I used to run along the promenade a lot of the time and  there was a lady who used to pirouette between the two piers everyday, I think she was an ex-ballet dancer but I never thought I would see anything like that again until yesterday when I almost fell over watching an elderly gentleman ballroom dance in his speedo’s.  He was there at the beginning of my run and still 30 minutes later on the way back happily spinning around and around “toute sol” with not a care to who was watching, I’m going to love living here!

Despite me being busy cooking for a private party tonight and Saturday, the ‘Paella a la Plage’ enquiries still keep flooding in and we are now fast approaching 50 people for our soiree on the beach. Exciting stuff and we can’t wait to meet so many new faces. I will write more when I have time but thanks to everyone for the great support and see you all on Saturday week x

I’ve always wanted to run a little cafe so when asked me to do the catering for the Career and Lifestyle expo I jumped at the chance. As it was going to be visited by lots of Brit’s I thought I should do the kind of food us Brit’s do occasionally miss. So as one of the children was coming home from boarding school for Half Term I decided to put in a sausage and bacon order to to be delivered the day of her flying home. It worked very well and the sausage smuggler arrived home with 150 sausages and a ton of bacon!

Luckily we had our lovely friend Nigel ‘wannabe-catwalk-model’ Hindle coming to stay for the weekend who actually thought he was going to sit in the sun and relax but I had other ideas! He made a perfect grill chef and spent the whole weekend making bacon and sausage sandwiches, couldn’t have done it without him. We also sold a mountain of cupcakes, carrot cakes and chocolate brownies and the steak, caramalised onion and mozzarella hot wraps were a huge hit along with my quiche and salads. So a very successful fun weekend.

Next secret supper dates are coming soon but we are thinking of the weekend of 18th or 19th June and it’s going to be on the beach somewhere. Just planning it at the moment and will post the date as soon as we know for definite.

Well what a lot of fun was Friday night!  After three days of cooking and making the garden look beautiful we were really excited for the film crew to come and shoot at our 4th supper club.  A huge thank you to everyone that came along and participated in our evening, I have to say we couldn’t have had a more perfect group of people, all looking like movie stars!  The setting was perfect, Wayne and the boys spent the whole day hanging tea lights in those lovely little Bonne Maman jam jars from every branch they could find and the canopy of our oak tree when lit up looked stunning!  Thank you guys for all your help, as everyone knows I only take credit for the cooking, the scene setting is never really anything to do with me and I have to say Wayne always makes it look magical.  By the way if anyone would like to rent the space at the bottom of the garden for parties it’s available!

Today I am starting to think of the cafe I am running for two days this weekend coming.  It’s going to be another busy weekend but am really looking forward to it.  The very dynamic Alison Rentoul running the The Career & Lifestyle Exhibition Everyone who is anyone is going to be there.  I am going to do my usual quiches, salads and cupcakes but also we will be doing hot wraps and bacon and sausage sandwiches.  We are celebrating the 1st birthday of FR2DAY two with a few glasses of wine and a canape or too early evening Saturday, all welcome between 6pm and 8pm.

Hope to see you all there.  Bye for now