French Flea Bites (Mill of the Flea)

Number four in the series, French Flea Bites covers another eventful year for our hero and his wife as they stumble knee-deep through the rice pudding of their lives in darkest rural Normandy and at the Mill of the Flea. This episode introduces another galaxy of weird characters and situation - and a number of distinctly distinctive recipes, such as the favourite dishes of an (alleged) Ancient Egyptian god and his travelling companion! Also includes a man who believes he died in 1979, a cat who becomes a werewolf at full moon and a plan to turn a farmyard compost heap into Nehou's answer to the Millennium Dome. As we join the Easts at the start of a new century, all is obviously 'normale' at the Mill of the Flea...