LOUISE DESJARDINS<br/><br/>We went along another short corridor and into the kitchen. This room surprised me as unlike the mood of the other parts of the house I’d seen so far here it was ultra modern, very clean and wonderfully efficient looking, everything bright and shiny and well laid out. A large window looked out onto part of the garden and hillside facing away from the sea, there was a door out to the back and immediately outside a small walled garden where herbs and vegetables grew. A few free range hens wandered about clucking happily.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Tell me, mademoiselle, do you cook?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I blushed a little,<strong>“Well, yes, but only for one. I do vegetarian mainly, and salads, I like to watch what I eat, though as a child my mother was an excellent cake maker so I know a little of cakes and pastries but I’ve not baked at all since leaving home.”</strong>I patted my tummy with one hand to indicate that I had no desire to.<br/><br/><strong>“I don’t think though that my skills would add anything to what your usual cook can produce.”</strong><br/>