Aurel's laurels

First the bad news. We wont be having a fantastic spread like this one for last year's twin birthday parties for my wife and younger brother. In a tent in August in the garden in Sussex. Now the good news. We will, almost certainly, go instead to my niece's wedding in a village south of Paris and visit one of my oldest friends in Marseilles. A completely French holiday for a change and in June two months ahead of our usual vacation.