At this rate
we will be having a white Christmas this year. The UK keeps sending us these
cold fronts and although we are grateful for their generosity this is one kind
of gift that would be better if not shared. As a result, we have been passing
around the latest in cold germs and I was the most recent victim. Please don’t
send any sympathy though – a whole day under the covers was just too divine for
words. The only problem is that it is the wrong time of year to take days off
to be ill. There are mince-pies to make; rooms to prepare and a thoroughly
dusty house to clean. At the end of the week we are going down to join Pieter
and Tilly in their new house and have Christmas with them. Tilly has promised
us a thoroughly French Christmas meal and we are intrigued to find out what
that is. All that I know for sure is that there will be no turkey, Brussels
sprouts or traditional Christmas pudding. We will stay with them until Tuesday
morning when we will all leave, they to Mallorca and ourselves to return to the
Aveyron. When we get back we will have to get stuck in and do all the things
that we didn’t manage this week so that all is as welcoming as possible for the
new arrivals to France at the end of the week. We will squeeze in another
Christmas dinner on Sunday before all travelling down to Toulouse to install
the family in their rental accommodation. We plan to spend a couple of days
with them to help them get settled in and then bring both the girls back here.
Courtney will start school again on the 8th (only two weeks break
for Christmas) and Cassidy will spend a few days with her to get the feel of
French schools. Courtney did a similar thing last year when she stayed with her
friend down near Carcassonne and spent three days in school with the friend.
She still says it was the best thing that could have happened to her so we are
hoping that Cassy will feel the same about the experience. I do hope that the
early morning cold will not put her off! She will of course be a in the hostel
as Courtney is (total immersion) so won’t have to catch a bus before the sun
gets up as she will while staying with
us. but until she starts there, they will both be braving the cold.
All of which
is rather building up to say that there will probably be no blog until after
New Year. So I will take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Christmas and
a peaceful New Year and look forward to continuing this saga in 2018.
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