Engagement Party Photos!

Thank you so very much to all who came and made it such a fabulous day and night! Izzy and I loved every second, and were lucky to have you all there. Lots of great photos and memories to hold on to, and a real prelude to what I just know it going to be an amazing day next Feb. I can't WAIT!!

Siblings reunited

Alex finally arrived back in France last week and we've caught up with him at our apartment in Antibes and Cannes - where his boat is based for the winter.

Here are the boys looking pretty 'Riviera' on the weekend, hanging out in a cafe at lunchtime.

Food and friends...

I am starting to think I may have an alternative career ahead of me as a food photographer. Either that, or my photo-taking is starting to reveal a total obsession with meal times. Those who know me closely need no photographic proof of that though I suppose ;)

This weekend Izzy and I had a visit from Penny and Tom, neither of whom had been to Antibes before, and I think they loved it. We had a fab evening in Cannes on Saturday night, then spent Sunday mooching around Antibes, looking at boats, swimming in the sea, and yes...more eating. And Tom made friends with a lizard.

Here are a selection of pics:

At dinner in Le Caveau 33

Mine and Penny's oysters

Some of the delights at the Provencal market in Antibes, including the shiniest apples EVER!

And here are some daft shots that came out of the weekend...

Courtyard visitor..

...each morning I get a visit from this fellow, and no amount of chair-scraping, door-banging, or washing-flapping seems to deter him/her.

Birthday antics

Izzy celebrated his 33rd birthday yesterday and I challenged myself to bake him a banana cake...

It turned out pretty darn tastily so I then made him another one, with chocolate chips, and chocolate frosting. No photographic evidence of that one, but I did sneak a pic of the cake he got at work...

I hasten to add it was made by a professional chef!

We had a fantastic meal at Don Camillo's with the crew of Twizzle and various others, location chosen for it's proximity to our flat and also because DC's does amazing schnizel - Izzy's birthday meal of choice. Look how happy he is with it...

And here's me and the birthday boy with his recently-extinguished flame-decorated birthday profiteroles (which I ate)...