Monday Busy day at work so nothing much happened on the house today. Matt did spend some time this morning putting our details on what seems to be the equivalent of ‘Find a trade’ however, which seems to have been oddly successful as we have already had a couple of responses – by phone rather than email of course, that’s the French way. I do rather wish that he’d told
Read moreThursday Busy day of work so little time to do much else but definitely very cold outside, I believe that it was about -12 last night. Not long before it got dark however Matt did manage to mix up some plasster and make a start on the taping and joining for the ensuite. I measured up the gap for the piece next to the fireplace as this will need to
Read moreSaturday The day that we have been waiting for since long before the house officially became ours finally came. It was our first day on the slopes at Superbagneres! Unfortunately this also meant yet another early start to the day, it was almost dark still. I tried my very best to be as nice as possible but it doesn’t come naturally first thing, although I consoled myself with thinking that
Read moreFriday It’s New Years Eve, we had a bit of a lie in. A late night chat to Lee and Vicky had kept me up rather later than planned (again). We are however due to go and meet Jonny and Cressida later on so time to do a few bits and pieces around the house before we go. Matt however was up a little earlier than me and made some
Read moreMonday While I’m incredibly grateful to have a fantastic family to have spent time with, and the kindness of Peter to put us up during our isolation, we are very excited to finally be going home. It was a crack of dawn start, well actually well before – super dark out as we were up at 5am! Last bits and pieces packed and we were ready to go. Of course
Read moreMonday Matt arrived back about 8:30 so I got up to let him in and then went back to bed for half an hour. At 11:00 he got a message to say that his PCR test at Heathrow was positive. I had some King’s PCR tests to hand we were planning to use for the Fit to Fly return to France on Wednesday so we immediately both took one. Since
Read moreSaturday Today is the day. Time to check that we have everything and do a quick clear out of the fridge. We’re only going for about 10 days so really just the milk etc to worry about. We also put the food out for Jonny and Cressida so they can feed the cat from time to time and dropped off the new house key – it’s great having friends so
Read moreTuesday It’s Matt’s Birthday – or at least his Northern Hemisphere birthday anyway. His mum rang at 9pm yesterday as that is when is was actually born; which raises the question, if you are born in a different hemisphere when should you actually be celebrating your birthday?! If Matt was born at 9pm then it would be 9am in the UK so the 30th works but should we actually celebrate
Read moreMonday Up early to start work. Matt is still feeling bad so he’s wrapped up in bed for the day and writing me shopping lists. He’s done an antigen test this morning which was negative, hopefully that’s good news but he’s still going to need to rest and get better even if it is just man flu. Around 3pm I was heading upstairs to get dressed to go do the
Read moreEnglish: Corridor – French: Couloir Friday Another busy day as always. I was up early (for me at least). We’re expecting the plumber to come but no idea when. In France it is either first thing in the morning, late afternoon, or (more often) not at all. Almost all my meetings were pushed back for one reason or another – seriously people, I am not a morning person, if you
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