Hi Liz

Bonjour, bienvenue a forum Anglais! (No really; my French is truly atrocious and rusty... please don't test it further than that! )

Oh boy do you have my sincere admiration! I can resist most things in life, but pain au chocolat... even the crappy impersonation they sell over here... is a definite weakness of mine!

Still, I suppose you could make a passable variation on the theme if you really set your mind to it?

Totally understandable about the wine... well it'd be rude not to really, wouldn't it?! Especially as you have the British reputation to keep up: it'd never do for them to think we weren't all lushes over here!

Congratulations on the lbs so far! Keep up the good work!