Lockdown life

We're used to life being quiet in the winter months but normally spring means the weather improves,  La Tranche begins to wake up and we socialise more. Well, the weather certainly improved with long sunny,  even hot spells. What could we do to console ourselves about the lack of social interaction?

In the bar on the ferry from St Malo to Portsmouth, handwash gel already evident

A few days later and back in La Tranche: a better kind of sanitiser

Comfort food helped us through the lockdown: steak with home-made chips and pepper sauce...

...chickory (endive) gratin another day...

...sausage casserole Sunday lunch, Yorkshires and roasties to the ready...

...cheese soufflée, one of your faithful blogger's signature dishes, ...

...or chicken & new potato tagine?

Of course puds were allowed as well (but not too often)!

Lemon meringue so good it merits two photographs

Or a new favourite: marmalade cake

One day we and Sacha picnicked (courtesy of The Slice) above the Starfish. This was in the second stage of lockdown when we could finally be with family again.

But, all this eating is going to take its toll...

...Joe Wicks' exercise class to the rescue!