Today was , I decided , going to be a cooking day.
This is the only way I can recharge my cooking mojo from time to time.
I decided to make two lots of bread , my normal seedy nutty brown and a new mildly buttery white I wanted to experiment with.

Also I wanted to make some more icecream in my new machine, this time I decided to make a vanilla (but flavoured with the real thing)

So there I was about an hour ago , both breads in the oven and gently scenting the house (You know what they say , if you want to sell a house bake bread when the buyers call) and my churn just getting my icecream to a state of shining perfection when there was a ring at the bell.
It was two ladies , one of the village whom we hadn’t met before and one stranger.
They were thinking of booking out the house for a birthday party in March and wanted a look around.

I went up stairs to collect my madame (who has the better French ) but by the time we came down they were ours.

Le Pain ! La Glace ! Superb ! Quelle aromes !

As they left a few minutes later (having also fallen in love with the bedrooms )
one of the ladies gave me a little hug !
There is no doubt in my mind that the way to enthrall a French Lady is with a whiff of Le Bon Pain.