Christmas has Started!

This year we wanted to start the Christmas season with a bang and so we organised a little party yesterday, Sunday lunchtime.

We ended up with 16 English friends and 11 French, but we asked for volunteers to perform for us, either singing, playing a musical instrument, poetry, jokes ... whatever!

Fortunately we have a salon big enough for this sort of gathering ...

... but we had organised a surprise.

Father Christmas arrived to listen to everyone's Christmas wishes!!!

(Father Christmas is a charming gentleman who lives nearby and spends all of the run up to Christmas going to events for children as Père Noël)
After we had had some food (to soak up the alcohol) the performances began

 

 Sue and Mark played a sonata ... once Mark had got the music the right way up ... and sang for us later.

 Our good friends Odile and Catherine stunned us by performing one of my poems which they had translated into french for our French friends.  We were overwhelmed and Sue was reduced to tears.  This served to highlight that poetry is so much better when it is recited.

Sue and Fran combined to give us a Pam Ayres poem abusing us husbands!

André played a french song for which he provided the words so everyone could join in.

I should add that Sue and I had managed to lower the cultural tone completely by giving our rendition of the lesson on how to give a cat a pill!
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