We do lead a very varied life here as this month’s title might suggest! We have had a very busy month both at home with all the summer visitors and in the community with all the excitement of the annual fete and other happenings.
The month started with
Every month I wonder if I am going to have enough news to make the blog interesting and up to now I have been astonished at all the things we manage to fit into a month. This last month has been a pretty hectic one really – much more than usual.
The Auvergnats have a lot in common with the British when it comes to talking and moaning about the weather. The hot topic of conversation here for the last month has been the unusually “mauvais temps” (bad weather). That is bit of an understatement
May in France seems to be just one long sequence of Bank Holidays! We sometimes wonder if anyone ever works during May. Firstly there is May 1st (Fete de Travail), then May 8th (end of WW2) and this year we have had Ascension Day and Lundi de Pentecote
As predicted we have been busy and have had a very good month all told. We have had a visit from friends who really enjoyed their long weekend with us and went away, happy to spread the word about how beautiful the Auvergne is. They were followed
Easter Monday and we have several inches of snow! All the seasons seem to be topsy-turvy at the moment. Last week I was enjoying all the primroses and violets in the garden and watching the birds beginning to look for nesting sites and now the
Things have been very quiet this month really. We have been going about all our usual tasks with out much excitement. We have our first visitors of the year in the gite at the moment – a very large family consisting of parents, 5 children and a dog.
Happy New Year!
We have had a mixed start to the New Year with several good, and a few not so good, things happening. We spent a splendid New Year’s Eve with Angele, Phillipe and their sons Lucas and Georges, at the house of their friends Lynne
I’ve just got time (I think) to get a quick post done for December before we leave to spend Christmas with the family in the UK. We have just managed to get all our preparations done in time – we lose a couple of days due to travelling and it gets tight
I have been struggling to find the time to get the blog up to date recently. It is our quiet season too – I don’t know where the time goes but it seems to fly by. My kids will say that it is because I have been spending too much time playing with my new
I enjoyed my visit to the UK at the end of September. It was great to see the kids, my mother and my brother again. I even managed to get to see some friends this time which was good too. Once again though I found the traffic very difficult to
Things have gone very quiet here as our summer influx has now ground to a halt. It is very strange having the place to ourselves again. We have really enjoyed having guests in the gite and B&B, and especially enjoyed seeing the children playing
We have been here for a whole year now. I still find it hard to believe that we have made this great change in our lives and we are still surviving and loving every minute of living in this lovely part of the world. We have learnt such a lot and really
We are now well into our summer lets for the gite and all is going well thank goodness. Our friends from Marple had a good week in which they were able to relax and enjoy the countryside even though the weather was decidedly iffy. We now have
We had a fantastic time in the UK for Matthew and Christine’s wedding. The wedding itself was perfect – a beautiful day and lots of very happy people. The bride and groom had smiles a mile wide on their faces all day and their happiness radiated to