'The DSM' Editorial - Issue 90 A Lonely Bowl of Soup
Last month Anna returned to the UK for a week so I was left, for the first time, in rural France, alone! The mind is a devious thing. The sounds in the night, the shadows in the corner of the room. I reverted to childhood, checking under beds and in cupboards to make sure no one was lurking; started having prolonged conversations with the dog - madness was just around the corner! Then Anna returned and normality resumed. Despite the lack of rain the vegetable garden has been in full flow this month so we have been ‘eating the rainbow’ as the vegetarians say. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays we have courgette soup, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays squash soup and on Sundays we ring the changes and have squash and courgette soup. Apologies for the picture but we couldn’t resist. On the recommendation of one of our contributors we visited the amazing Château de Brézé, near Montreuil-Bellay. It was an amazing place and well worth a visit. Anyway, enough of my prattlin...