How to be good

Today, how to visit France without offending the locals, a recipe for an aubergine and chickpea salad, and a small but perfect market haul.

Damian and me, strolling along the port, trying not to cause an international incident.

Like many of you I suspect, I blunder about trying my best, attempting not to get in the way, not to be too loud or too quiet, too forward or too aloof, trying to #bekind while striving not to be a sanctimonious bore about it.

As I navigate life in a new country, for t…