A beautiful Sunday in Paradise

A Beautiful Sunday today, puffy clouds passing over, in the 70's this afternoon and with The Queen and her Prince coming for dinner tonight at 6. We have several such pairs hereabouts, mostly Brit ex-pats but a few French ones too. We have had several of the British variety to dinner over the years and it's always an enjoyable bash. We like to make formal dinners, 5-6 courses are normal, tonight we will have the following:Cold Potato Soup with Garlic and Parsley as a first course. Pork Roast with fennel and garlic with Orange Cinnamon Carrots and Italian White Bean salad, the second,Cheeses from The US, a Tillamook White Cheddar, Great Britain is represented with a fine Stilton Blue and locally produced creamy Goat Cheese with Garlic. All this on toasts of the local bread. The Third.Raspberry Tart with Chocolate Sauce, the fourth.Dessert Wines from Sicily, Italy and France. A fifth.Espresso, the 6th.Just enoiugh to fill out the entire evening til about midnight given our level of drinking and general bullshitting.The tart is made, the white beans are made, the carrot dish is cooking, the soup is cooling it's heel in the fridge and the Roti (pork roast) is waiting to be skewered on a rod and insewrted into the rotisserie.All is well. The house is as presentable as this particular pile of rocks can be right now with many unfinished rooms. The guests appreciate such a scene as it is one threy themselves are quite familiar with, having an uncompleted 12th century castle as their abode.