THE BUVET

Finally I have arrived at a stage in my life in France that has time for work. I've spent the last two years trailing up and down a mountain pass four times a week taking my eldest son - Samuel - to various appointments and extra lessons. Finally he was diagnosed with Dysphasia in April, which is a problem with the central language center in the brain; we are now on the right track. He repeated this year of school which seems to have helped tremendously and also went to a French class twice a week for three hours a lesson. All that stops in July. The only thing I continue with is the speech therapist. So no more flying to Sallanches and time for me. SO.........I have gone in with a friend and put a tender in to run a little restaurant in the park called a BUVET. Scary thought after running a restaurant for 10 years I never thought I'd do it all again, but this is on a very low scale and for the summer months only. Not to mention it's next door, in the park.  We take over in November. 

So this is it. A tiny little building we will rent from the Mayor. We are going to concentrate on Children’s parties and BBQ's in the evening once a week. Daily I'll be doing gouter at 4pm, which is very big here basically it's juice and cake for the kids. I don't want to be in competition with the bakeries, can't imagine I would with my terrible pastry skills, but my homemade cake, muffin, cookie skills are much better so will do that. Also Gallettes which are savory pancakes made from buckwheat flour and made with different fillings - cheese, ham, sausages and of course the French favourite -Crepes. And that's it. We are responsible for the mini-golf which is brand new and the tennis. Should keep us busy. We were asked by the mayor to take our kids last Friday for pictures so we banged around the mini-golf course. He asked various zany artists in the area to contribute to the course with statues. It's great.

One of the artists finishing his piece.  It moves.

To celebrate our friend Seb came round with pizza -