A Sporting Lunch

Our swimming group is a great bunch of people who care about one another and don't just hang out at the pool together. This summer Philippe and Marie-José had their 50th wedding anniversary, so naturally there was a party at their place (on a Thursday of course, when the pool is closed).

I made beetroot and walnut hummus. (Recipe.)

I'm not sure what Philippe is up to with this water butt arrangement, but knowing him it's a genius idea.

Toasting Marie-José and Philippe.

Presenting Marie-José and Philippe with a bottle of bubbly.

Left to right: Jean, Paola, Marie-José, Claire, Ingrid, Yohann's daughter, Chantal, Christiane, Yohann, Huub.

I also made a vegetable terrine, from the recipe on Taste of France.

Many of the swimming group also cycle.

The young female owner of this bike with a puncture was visibly unimpressed when the old white guys took over the repair. As she pointed out, if she'd wanted to repair it this way she could have done it herself. I think André ('fifty years of riding bikes in France') forgot he was dealing with a Dutch woman. The metal detector is for trying to locate the metal valve that pinged off somewhere into the pine needle ground litter (never to be found again, even with the aid of metal detecting technology).

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