Live like no one’s watching
Today, I contemplate the sorry state of our front gates and the French obsession with discretion, plus a very green market haul and a recipe for Puy lentils with roast beetroot and Roquefort.
Yesterday, there was a ring on the bell. I came downstairs, walked along the hallway, through the front door, down the steps and across the garden (no convenient Ring doorbell, about which more later), and on the other side of the heavy gate stood a very polite man in a gilet. This happens a lot, right down to the gilet. Neatly…
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