Day 116: Architect

Dinner with 2 architects:

• Salade verte
• Aubergines à la poêle
• Chèvre chaud sur toast aux céréales
• Tarte aux abricots maison
• Badoit

Fianna and I are spending the weekend by the ocean in Préfailles (my family village). As my mum hasn't arrived yet we are spending out first night as guests of Ph.- F. and E. who is my mum's first cousin.  Our delightful hosts are both architects and have worked together in their agency for all their professional lives.  I mentioned to them that Architect was one of my dream professions, (it seems  that's what most possible say).  In my defence I have executed on that dream to a certain extent having bought and remodelled 10 house or apartments over the last 27 years.  As I am writing I realise that I would have probably been a very difficult architect.  If I had to take into account a client's wishes it would probably drive me crazy. Contrary to what I have been saying for years, rather than an architect, what I would really like to be is a promoter who buys, transforms and sells buildings. 

So it all comes back to my favourite game when I was young: Monopoly!