Christmas in Jersey

We came back to Jersey on Christmas Eve and enjoyed a lovely day with Ursula at our house in Anne Port. Didn't do the usual suspect (the turkey), but instead lunch was Kokoda (pronounced Kokonda), a raw fish dish with coconut milk, from Fiji, followed by a Vietnamese salad made with scallops, paired with HUGE garlic prawns. Then mince tarts made with my home made fruit mince that has been macerating over here for over a year. They were served with little chocolate cups filled with home made coffee ice cream - orange and cardamom drizzle poured over the tops.
It made for a very calm day and we drank good French wine, finishing off with a glass of Brown Brothers Orange Muscat and Flora.
Couldn't have been better really.

Then on Boxing day Cousin Ian and his son Toby came to watch the cricket (don't mention THE CRICKET), as we had recorded it and watched it "live" all day.

Breakfast first - lovely Scottish smoked salmon and local free range scrambled eggs with lots of tea and toast

Then we watched the beginning of the debacle that they call the Boxing Day Test. All the jibes that DM has dished out to my British friends over the years have come home to haunt him. We limped through the first full day and, ever hopeful watched the next day as well....and the next and then gave up.
We decided to have a drive around to see what was happening locally. I have to say  - not much, but there were some good photo opportunities.
One of the "girls" in the field at Maufant

The north coast is very wild and woolly

Coy horse in a very expensive winter coat