Chapter 5
Jo spent most of the next day cooking the new dishes that she’d added to the café’s original menu. She was doing this at home as the chef was using the café kitchen and the whole house smelled amazing!
She kept me usefully employed washing and chopping vegetables, loading the dishwasher and walking Buster who was also enamoured by the cooking smells and kept getting under her feet.
By 3pm all of the preparations were complete and we took everything down to the café and started setting out trays of champagne glasses ready for the opening later. There was a brief panic as the wine merchant hadn’t arrived yet but a short and curt phone call by Jo had him on the doorstep in minutes—he even threw in some free wine as an apology!
We just about had time to run home to shower and cha
