Phew…it is nice to get a few days respite at long last! We have really been working very hard for most of August...well until last weekend anyway. As usual here after 15th August things begin to calm down as everyone fixes on the great return to work
Once again, I’m squeaking in on at the very last day of the month. This time though I do have a good excuse we have been very busy indeed. The B&B has gone crazy these last few weeks & now the gite is in full swing too so my days have been rather filled
I seem to be getting later & later in updating this blog each month! Here I am squeaking in the June post on the last day again. It is difficult at the moment though as we have been quite busy again recently (yeah!) & Geoff has not quite finished his
What a month May has been. Our gite guests left on the 1st & the weather changed for the worse lots of rain, mist & fog, & then horror of horrors more snow! We dread the words “quelques flocons” on the TV meteo reports but usually take it with a pinch
It’s official. We have had the best April business wise since we moved here. The B&B has really taken off this month & we have had some lovely visitors. Some of this upsurge has been thanks to the Cadeaux box scheme we joined last year which is (much
We’ve had quite a busy few days as March has drawn to a close – where do these months go to? The last couple of weeks have been a blur of cleaning & washing curtains & bedding in order to get the gite & B&B rooms ship shape for the new season – which
Considering that February is the shortest month of the year, this one seems to have dragged on for ever! I suppose a lot of that has been due to the odd weather – spring like one day then up to our knees in snow again the next – but I have to say I will
Bonne Annee a tous! I know it is almost the end of January now, but I hope 2010 has started well continues to be good to you all. We have had a very mixed start to the year, with some good things happening - & some not so good things too!
I’ll get the
Having just read the end of the previous post I can’t quite believe that Christmas has already been & gone. Where does the time go? We did have a great time though – more of that later.
The month of December has been quite a busy one with one thing
They say a change is as good as a rest and we certainly enjoyed both of these aspects on our cruise. All went very smoothly this year (no repeats of the theft of last year thank goodness) and we had a thoroughly enjoyable 10 days of luxury & spoiling
What a wonderful autumn we are having here in the Auvergne. The weather has been really mild, well during the daylight hours anyway – it does get cold at night & we have had a few frosty starts to the day. But we have been having temperatures ranging
I’m beginning to hate the rentree period. The French all disappear back to work/school and our world just dies! Suddenly there is no-one around in the villages, a lot of the local shopkeepers also take some time off after the busy summer and everywhere
I know that it is supposed to be a sign of ageing to ask questions like that but I really feel that August has come and gone so quickly. It really doesn’t seem like a month since I was writing the July blog! Worse than that the end of August heralds
The last sentence of the previous post has turned out to be so prophetic. We have been working flat out since the beginning of July - great news but exhausting. The gite has been fully occupied since July 2nd as we had a last minute booking from a French
June has been a really strange month with very little happening with the gite and B&B, lots happening with Geoff’s English teaching and quite a few events in and around the community. We have been very quiet as far as visitors go this month with only