Oh no snow again.......

I have been here in France for 4 yrs and one of the many reasons for our move was the hope of better weather especially in winter after 2 years of solid rain in Cumbria it made the decision for us.

HA bloody HA....... Nobody told us about the snow that has arrived every year leaving us blocked in for days and the plummeting temperatures which are reading -8 at night it really is becoming the norm now for January and February to be like this and I realise its no better in the UK.......so although its very pretty I really wish it would go away.

Big clean.......

Before the spring clean....all the Xmas decorations came down today and everywhere was dusty dirty and sparse looking, there really is nothing good about Christmas decorations Barr humbug!

Used the steam floor cleaner I bought a few weeks ago which made light work of the tiles, everything back in its place just how I like it.

Lovely sunny day lets hope it stays like this till spring somehow I don't think so!!

Start the day .......

With a fresh egg....... Our chickens are all laying at the moment and boiled egg and soldiers are a must to........start the day!

Happy New Year.........

Well it's 2013!!!! how the year of 2012 has flown it only seems 5 mins ago that my elder sister was here in a warm and sunny February then in a cold and very wet June I was in Paris with younger sister....Weddings, Golden jubilees and the Olympics all gave extra bank holidays which in turn gave Bob longer breaks here in France.

We have had a good Christmas quite but to our liking, plenty of good food some actually cooked and made by me, every roast potato was golden fluffy and crisp my only catastrophe being one batch of Yorkshire pudds ......flat as pancakes!!

Molly has had some nice long walks with us in tow and we had a lovely trip to Bordeaux The city's nicknames are "La perle d'Aquitaine", "La Belle Endormie" (Sleeping Beauty) in reference to the old center which had black walls due to pollution. But today we can say that Bordeaux is awake. In fact, a part of the city, Le Port de La Lune, was almost completely renovated. We are planning a longer trip later in the new year.

3 Times......

Bob has been home three times in November one trip to Toulouse one trip to Palma Majorca and 5 days on his official break which has seen November fly by and before you know it December is upon us which means Christmas and cold wet windy weather and the dreaded snow!

I have finished another term of French lessons with a full day beginners conversation class which included lunch. the day was very enjoyable if extremely difficult and my goodness did I have a headache at the end of it. The lunch was fabulous so it was worth going......headache and all.

We took Molly to ruffiac lake and had a lovely walk she really enjoyed reading the latest newspaper and got very giddy an hour 30min walk and that was us done in for the rest of the day!

Bonkers!!!

Day today......the weather has been absolutely gorgeous, it showed 18.5 in the car this afternoon when I went shopping it seemed warmer than it did in June when we went to Paris so for mid November I would say that's bonkers!!!

Picked these goodies up from the supermarket they had all the Christmas chocolates in and thinking of the cold weather to come bought the cadburys hot chocolate will need to go to the bijou factory shop for chocolate Caramel straws to drink it through....dribble dribble the lemon meringues came in two's again one down already!

I Hate colds......

Just getting over the worst head cold I have had in a long time....thumping head, sneezing and snot for about 3 days.......thank goodness Bob had brought a load of cold and flu remedies over with him in preparation for his winter man flu.

Hopefully I will fell better to go to a wine tasting evening that I have been looking forward to this week......I hate colds!!!!