Monday 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
Read moreMonday It’s a busy day at work but managed to convince Matt to get on with a bit more work on the framing afterwards. Ok, so it wasn’t a great deal further on but the external wall is now done. Still plenty more here to be done as we currently only have the cold water feed and still need to run power to the room. It was as much as
Read moreMonday Busy day working and another crisp autumn day. Would be lovely to be retired and able to spend some time off just rambling around but the house must be paid for one way or another. Seems Matt must have spotted grumps in the garden. Meow however is very much making herself at home as a house cat. [8 November 2021] Tuesday Off down to Luchon [no idea why we
Read moreMonday Busy day of work but nice to look out the windows at the autumn colours on the mountains all around us. [1 November 2021] Tuesday Delivery guy has been and seems that both Matt and I got presents today. Matt has the new Starlink, SpaceX’s new satellite based internet connection meaning we should be able to get high quality, uninterrupted internet. I got… my replacement passport, Christmas isn’t cancelled
Read moreFriday A while back Matt broke one of the kitchen windows white replacing the shutter motor. Since summer is now over the pane is going to need to be changed out. This place is cold enough without adding extra ‘ventilation.’ A quick trip to the Brico to get the glass cut to size and then back to fit it. The old pane came out quickly and smoothly enough. Fingers crossed
Read moreSunday Up at the crack of dawn to see the family off. It was so early it was still dark! I was up but clearly very sleepy still… After some fond farewells it was time to head back to bed, there’s no sane reason to be up any longer than you need to be at this time of day and and on a Sunday of all days. Once we’d had
Read moreFriday Chan – Busy in the morning getting as much work as possible done as it’s another POETS day for Matt and I but far less exciting today. Tonia – So, today is another day to spend some quality time with Mum and also give Anya a bit more of a walk, hopefully a little bit of time off the lead for a change. We have decided that we are
Read moreMonday Starting the day with another round of Meow, Anya, Tonie – sadly I do not think I am ever going to be the winner in this game – it was nice to see that the sun was still shining. As I was getting a little tired of our morning romp around the garden and sometimes across the road or into other peoples’ gardens, my thoughts returned to getting the
Read moreMonday Working – so over to Tonia for some daytime action. So, today is the day that we are all working our paid jobs – working at La Maison Rose does not pay very well (or at all in fact). Recognising this, mum did what any sane person would do and went off to visit her friends Wendy and Tony over near Carcasonne. At around 230km each way she’ll be
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