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I hope this will encourage me to post more.

It's not decided whether I should go to England for three weeks or stay in France to look after the house and oversee the renovation work. I had been in favour of staying (the car will be uncomfortably crowded on the return journey) until I noticed that Eurotunnel are offering passports for teddy bears. I was delighted by the thought of having my own passport and changed my mind about the journey.

Unfortunately the passports are only for sale, at Folkestone, 1-2 and 8-9 August. The ticket is booked for early on the morning of 10 August. Perhaps I should email and ask if I could reserve a passport.

If I do decide to travel to England I could attend DWCon.

I rode on the front seat for the journey, and had a pleasant chat with the Customs people.
It was a long drive down from Calais (more than 10 hours including stops!), but I believe the actual driving time was about 7 hours.

After another short drive through twisting country lanes we arrived at Le Rivalard, where I spent the night guarding the house while sunflowerinrain went to find somewhere to sleep. Next day she returned with the previous owners who showed us where things are and how to deal with the electricity and water. I am now installed in the downstairs bedroom, on a mattress which they left for us. Very comfortable.

The countryside here is lovely, and very quiet apart from a military jet which passes low overhead in the early evening. Although we have had some rain, including one tremendous downpour, it soon clears and becomes sunny again.

I'm looking forward to welcoming my friends.

Finally, somebody has translated the lyrics and I know what they mean.

I'm ever so grateful.

http://carmina.ytmnd.com/

I'm currently staying with katsmeat until I go to France with sunflowerinrain. Katsmeat's been telling me all about it and I must say, it sounds very nice.

Merry Christmas all.

Some more Bailey's, I think.

Sminty and I were collected by sunflowerinrain, mistressdickens, and vivr from Burgh Castle, where we'd been "resting" for the summer with dragonmaestro. Now we are settled back in Norwich, for a few months.

Just after we arrived there was a lot of excitement and baking on the occasion of HMG's birthday. Her surprise party turned out to be more of a surprise than some of its organiers expected, because she and HMJ got engaged! The house was bursting with people. Daven took some good photos, and sunflowerinrain took a few rather poor photos (with the camera-phone; dreadfully lazy of her). At present, only the poor photos are online, here.

Since then we have watched quite a lot of West Wing, which I had not seen before. Most interesting.

( Pic under the cut )

Lounging around

Few pics from Edinburgh

with a friend


dressed up

another view

and wearing a hat