Cold

The weather is still beautiful but very cold.  
We went to "Léon de Bruxelles", for lunch. It's a restaurant near Valence which specialised in mussels with chips and desserts. Despite being a chain, the food was fairly good.
Afterwards I went back to Valence to take Mélanie, my niece to the cinema, it was part of my Christmas present to her.Claudine, my sister came too and I a glad she did as Mélanie needed to be straightened up on her chair a few times and I am not able to do it on my own. 
In the evening, Mélanie, Claudine and Denis , her husband, came back to mum's for more food, including ravioles (a local speciality - small ravioli stuffed with cheese and herbs), pork and turkey pie (from Scotland), and more of the Christmas bûche...