Thursday One day back in London and I have a meeting in the morning down at the Science Gallery but not much of a voice so decided to cancel my later meetings. It seems that American Express has a deal on at the moment and you can get £150 cash back on a certain expenses which includes a number of restaurants, none close enough to us in France or Spain
Read moreMonday Working in the morning and then we meet up with the others and walk across to Ariciffe for lunch in the tallest building on the island for lunch. Matt has meetings so afterwards we’re heading back to the villa and then relax. We’ve booked dinner tonight at Vicky’s favourite restaurant, La xx. Back at the villa after dinner we had the longest ever discussion about the colour of the
Read moreFriday At 4am this morning there was a bit of a storm that woke Matt up and so he then had to push Meow off the bed, who was very happily and cutely wrapped up at his feet. At least it’s just a little fluffy kitty so easier to move than a rather larger dog, and she doesn’t take up much space. While he went to close all the upstairs
Read moreMonday It’s an early morning start to get the boy back to London. On arrival however it seems that his flight has been significantly delayed so we’re both back off home after a wasted trip, and more importantly much unnecessary complaining and getting out of bed. An hour or so later we’re back off up to the train station. With Matt gone the house immediately feels empty – even if
Read moreTuesday Working hard in the morning but we need to crack on with the work on the walls. It’s so satisfying to see when small things line up, it really satisfies my OCD part. Matt has been finishing up the framing in Room 4 and then I’m on to trying to fill the gaps between and behind the pipes. It’s been a really time consuming part of the room for
Read moreWednesday Since it’s the first day back and I had some work to make up from spending yesterday travelling we didn’t get a great deal done, I was just glad to be back. Matt however seems to have been measuring up the pipes to the radiators in Rooms 3 and 4 as they have odd old fittings that as far as we can tell you can’t get anything to fit
Read moreWednesday Morning getting a bit of work done and packing, Matt is also busy working as he has to take a bit of time out later to drop me to the train. Train to Toulouse was about 2:30pm and wanted to leave plenty of time. Not much to tell as you can imagine, so standard pics of the station, Matt leaving and a couple from the plane. At the airport
Read moreTuesday Since we’re now in our last week of holiday, I am making the most of not having to get up. I was out of bed by about 11/11:30 but generally just pottered about the bedroom getting us unpacked, sorting the washing and putting away the huge pile of Matt’s clothes that has been building up – the washing fairy (and I) refuse, as his mother did, to put his
Read moreIf you’re looking for a blog about working on the house look away now, this is just our holiday photo slide show. Read it or not at your will! Saturday It’s early, well for me at least. I have to get up to leave by 10am! What kind of a holiday is this?! After our last car trip we realised that we can take lots more things than in a
Read moreSunday What with this not having to drive to the airport, wait 2 hours, fly, then spend another hour or more to get to our destination; I don’t have to get up early. It’s a really nice change. We should do more drive destinations. Easy drive and quickly to Biaritz for our first charge; it wasn’t really needed but I needed a pee stop and we didn’t want to leave
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