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
We have been busy little bees this month. We have now finished the “spring cleaning in the gite and I profited from some excellent drying days to get the curtains , duvets and bed covers all washed, dried and sorted out. The gite was looking
At last, a bit of time to get the blog up to date. The month started very quietly but has gathered pace towards the end with lots of things taking up my time. The most notable of these is the arrival of a lovely “new” dog, Bounty. We were unbelievably
I am writing this today with a very heavy heart as our lovely old dog Chester died on Saturday. He was so much part of our lives here that everything seems very strange at the moment. He was very old, perhaps 17/18 – which in human equivalent years
February has been a strange sort of month really. The weather has continued to be cold and miserable with some snow falling every week. Even the locals are thoroughly fed up with the long winter now and we are all longing for a bit of spring
Firstly let me wish you all a belated Happy New Year. This month seems to be flying by – I can’t believe it’s the 21st already. It seems like only yesterday that we were in the UK spending Christmas with the family. We came back here for New Year
What a month! Good things first. We started it off by going to the closing down buffet at the bar at St Etienne sur Usson. It was a quiet affair really with people dropping in for a farewell drink and some bits of food with Jeannot and Dolly. We (like