Off we go!

Today, we enter the village’s best dressed house competition and two recipes for easy, festive canapés.

Last night, the judging for the village’s best decorated Christmas house took place. Last year, just as we were sitting down to dinner, we had a ring on the bell and there at the gate were half a dozen good citizens with clipboards. We weren’t expecting them. We stumbled around a little in the vocabulary swamp, reaching for the French words for LED and …