Day 721 (Thursday) 30^th May 2019

It’s a bank holiday today for Ascension Day and for once I have the day off – hooray. We did a few odd jobs and cleaned in anticipation of our visitors Pat and Dee this afternoon and we felt quite house proud.

We met them in Le Phare at 12.30 and enjoyed a relatively cheap beer in the sunshine (the drinks in the restaurant we’re going to are bloody expensive). Dee had booked a table for us at Les Garcons, a restaurant we have walked past a 1,000 times but have never eaten there. Every lunchtime they have a menu for 15€ for two courses. I had goat’s cheese and a meringue, Dee had terrine and duck, Pat had terrine and prawns and Huw had goat’s cheese and duck. Pat very generously bought a bottle of rose and we had a thoroughly delicious lunch.

 

You can’t tell from this photo but this tap is enormous and a never-ending supply of water for Phoebe, Pat and Dee’s dog.

After lunch we went back to our place because Dee hasn’t seen it since about day 3 and she made all the right noises in the right places and she particularly liked my coloured walls. We had a bottle of Prosecco to celebrate our anniversaries; our 13^th and their 21^st. As we are still not 100% unpacked we drank it out of plastic cups! Badger met his first dog, Phoebe and hid under the bed for a while but good on him, he came out and faced the dog and they were both very calm.

As it was such a lovely day we took a picnic blanket and another bottle of Prosecco and went to the beach for a few hours.

 

The beach was packed and some people were swimming – it was warm but not that warm.

Huw, Dee and Phoebe went for a paddle and admitted that the sea was pretty cold – you won’t get me in there until July.

Strangely, Phoebe doesn’t like the sea – that ‘s the first dog I’ve ever come across that doesn’t love the sea, but she loved rolling in the sand afterwards.

We were surrounded by young women, fat and slim, wearing tiny bikinis and Pat was posing trying to attract their attention – it didn’t work!

We rounded the afternoon off in yet another bar watching the traffic jam as people were leaving the beach.

Today’s French sound/word is

Bottom of FormKif-Kif

This informal phrase will help you out when comparing multiple things that are more or less the same, or when you want to make someone believe that that's the case.

Kif-kif means ‘it's all the same', ‘it's equal', or ‘it makes no difference'. This phrase is usually used in informal scenarios to compare two options that are so similar that they are virtually equal. For example, Si je prends le métro ou le bus, c'est kif-kif, ça va durer une demi-heure (Whether I take the metro or the bus, it's all the same, it's going to take half an hour).

It can also be used to indicate that two parties have contributed equally to something, especially expenses: Tu as payé le dîner? Non, on a payé kif-kif. (Did you pay for dinner? No, we split the bill).

In this case, the term moite-moite or moitié-moitié (half and half) can also be used.