Saturday More work getting done on the kitchen floor today as we try to make a solid push towards being able to use this space again. Matt did most of the hard work but I put some screws in. It’s important that I have something to do. After lunch we were heading up to St Gaudens for a last bit of shopping before we have to take the car in
Read more[Meow (pictured) is a neighbour’s cat (no idea which one), she is healthy (and probably spade).] Wednesday If you had the heart to read the last post you’ll realise that today is a half post. After a busy couple of days of, what I can say more literally than ever, herding cats we really need to get some serious work done. We have a lot to catch up on. Just
Read more[Warning: Not all stories end like fairytales] Tuesday Despite the mountain of work that Matt and I have on it is incredibly hard not to be distracted by the knowledge of the tiny and super vulnerable little kittens. Seems that grumpy cat left the kittens around 9/9:30am and hasn’t been since. About 10:30am we had a quick search and couldn’t see her so went round to see what was happening.
Read moreMonday Another day and yet another trip to Toulouse. Thankfully the delivery came before our morning meetings. It’s my new garden shredder which is pretty exciting. Looking forward to playing with this. Hopefully it’s a bit more robust than our London one which has now given up the ghost. Quick meeting with the Health Innovation Network to share our progress and priorities for the next 12 months. Once that’s done
Read moreRandom aside to our activity. I got a great message from a lovely girl that I had never heard of – Armelle. It seems that she has picked up on the blog from New Year and one of the wallpapers inspired her to paint it. Not only was that a lovely thing to hear but clearly she’s done a great job. Also really convinced me that we need to reuse
Read moreThursday Having had such a rubbish day I’m not really in the mood for writing anything so don’t know how much I will get done today. The day started out ok, calls, work, financial housekeeping (even less exciting than the traditional kind as in France this is really just writing cheques for various people). We did get our temporary social security numbers which was kind of exciting. Now ready to
Read moreMonday No rest for the wicked. Back to work. Had to take a quick break at lunch to head down to Luchon and collect some more supplies as we’re going to have to take the car into the garage so need to ensure we have everything to build the new walls once the floor is out and then in again. Seems that Matt is slowly chipping away the space in
Read moreSaturday Quite possibly the best day in recent history. Matt let me sleep in till 1:30pm in the afternoon! It was amazing. I have needed that for so long. Got woken up for lunch and seems that Matt has spent the morning removing two halves of the joists that were rotten. Not a quick or easy job with just a hand saw. After lunch it was time to head to
Read moreThursday It’s been a pretty busy week with work and generally feeling pretty exhausted. The delay in writing these up also means that I am a bit vague on what happened. It seems however that the day’s work was punctuated by a wander around the garden. The ‘cherry’ seems to be dropping a lot more petals but heavens, there were so many bees of all different sorts all over it,
Read moreSunday I tried to ignore Matt for as long as possible but he doesn’t make it easy. I made it to 11am and couldn’t ignore the SDS drill any longer so figured it was time to go and help. It will be such a bonus when we are on to things that don’t make a lot of noise! Anyway, there’s not much to tell really, lots of breaking up concrete,
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