Mr & Mrs GARD VISIT.

Tony and Nikki came over this week for a Xmas drink (or 12). They arrived Monday and as St Potan is closed we went to the Crueset Bar in Pluduno.

My brother turned out to be crap at pool, but then after claiming not have played darts for 20 years, bangs in a 140 second throw.

Good news everybody. Bananarama have reformed.

Not really. Nikki, Marie, and Natasha enjoy a drink.

Bar owners Annie and Nono (The most sarcastic man in Brittany)

Then on the Tuesday as Bruno's bar was open in the village we stopped for a few.

Unfortunatly somebody took the bow off of the bar Xmas tree.

Do you recognise this person?

If so call crimestoppers on 0888 444555.

GETTING READY FOR XMAS

Xmas is getting close and preps are underway for a French Noel Festival.

We are doing all the normal things like the tree, outside lights,buying booze, food,writing xmas cards and of course the age old tradition of abusing the dogs!

Bella plays ball but Kip seems hacked off with it.

Amazing what you can do with a dog biscuit as bribery.

Owing to the credit crunch, Rudolph has been replaced this year Kids. And he looks pretty hacked off with it!

Modelling xmas wear all day is tiring.

Kip still doesn't want to know, but Bella is a bit of a poser.

With the St Potan game called off due to a frozen pitch, Al & John went to Plancoet to watch their league game. They play in a league higher and the standard was far better.

Plancoet won 6-0, with all goals coming in the 2nd half.

THE GERMANS ARE BACK

The weekend of 6/7 December the nearby village of Pluduno held it's Xmas market. Being twinned with a German town in the Alsace all the stalls were full of germanic produce. For once we found a decent German wine which we bought for Xmas day.

Gluhwein was readily available on a freezing day. All in all, something different for a couple of hours.

DINNER WITH NATALIE AND MIKHAIL

Sunday night we were invited to dinner with our Russian friends, along with Liz who is visiting, and John.

First time we had ever had Borscht and it was fantastic. Followed by a Georgian stew, cheeses and a dessert.

As usual our hosts were generous with their hospitality and we all had a fantastic time.

All gathered around the table. Well, all bar the picture taker.

Liz has far too many cider's and starts to laugh. All the bottles infront of her were polished off by the afore named person.

Natalie warns Al that he better do something just as good when we hold a dinner party. Little does she know that Al has the book 1001 things to do with mince!

The effects of the cider has worn off and Liz is back to her normal self.

The tattoo's are covered by a pink straightjacket.

PREPERATIONS FOR XMAS

It's been a while since Al has had to prepare a Xmas turkey. So it seemed like a good idea to practice trussing the turkey on Kip.

As you can see, Al has not lost the knack, and Kip is trussed and bound oven ready!

WEEK OF SPORTING DISASTER.

After the first darts defeat on Thursday (10-9) and the first pool defeat allbeit in the cup (7-6), Al and John are called in for extra training in the afternoon.

This has nothing to do with the fact that the bar was open. It was a genuine extra training session!

Yeah right!!!