Wednesday The best, and worst, thing about people leaving is the amount of work we can get done [with the exception of Tonia who definitely adds to the delivery rate]. In the working days we’re now back to spending lunchtimes and evenings working on the house. ‘Breaks’ today were spent digging the trench deeper for the power to the new ‘pool house’. It has to be 50cm deep I understand
Read moreFriday – encore Those crazy train people on the train, it was Lee and Vicky! Thank heavens they’d had the forethought to get train beers though as I’d completely forgotten to so well played team. They were coming to visit and travelling back with me ensured that Matt would be there ready to collect them. Matt was punctual as always and also bought beer for the weary travellers – what
Read moreTuesday Although I’m heading back to London this evening there’s still a lot to do. Thankfully I did most of my packing yesterday as my meetings felt as though they would never end. We also had a Sirrocco blow through last night. The winds were epic, and of course everything is covered in Sahara sand. Probably need to get the car cleaned up so that we can actually see while
Read moreFriday Standard work call with the Prof Sir and then off to get our blood tests. Seems as though they want to check for absolutely everything when you register with a GP here. Sadly however it still won’t allow me to donate blood in France as they have this whole CJD thing, on the plus side for our UK readers it means I can only donate to UK donors when
Read moreSaturday Matt was up early and off to the shop to get some breakfast, thankfully I don’t have this weakness for food early in the morning so I got to stay in bed. By the time I got up he was already planning for lunch, bacon and egg pie. Sounded pretty good and he had to have another egg (after the 9 in the pie) to brush it with so
Read moreTuesday Very busy start to the day but had a quick look at the first flowers coming out. In the afternoon however we rang the Vide Grenier to check if the other two ski lockers had arrived but they’d not heard back from the seller. The reminder appeared to work though, as soon as I went outside to plant a few more seeds the French phone started to ring over
Read moreThursday Mostly worked. I did give Biomedica a quick call today though. Seems they don’t do vaccinations but we can drop in anytime to get our blood tests done. Hopefully then they will also tell us where/how to get our tetanus boosters. Was then just very busy with work. In being so busy however I’d missed a rather massive piece of news: *Russia invades Ukraine* What madness is this? It’s
Read moreSunday Following a negotiation with Matt last night I managed to be in the car ready to go at 9am. Not bad on his part to get me out of bed on a Sunday morning, and pretty impressed I didn’t have to be thrown out the house. However we were on our way. So, it turns out that maybe, just maybe, Matt was right. I never seen queues like it.
Read moreWednesday Just working [16 February 2022] Thursday Busy morning with an early 8:30 start. A few back to back meetings but calls done at 12. Time to crack on and make the most of the day. There’s been some snow recently so we did the only responsible thing, headed up the mountain between meetings to get a few runs in. It was a bit slushy in places but not bad
Read moreThursday A long day of interviews today for the new Deputy Head of Comms for KHP. Some good candidates and possibly a couple that could be invited to interview for the temp work for me. 6 interviews though is pretty testing and I was desperate to get up and have a walk about. I found Matt out in the garden. Seems that he’s cleared the area ready for us to
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