Christmas is coming....

Its well over time that I updated the blog again, but what to write, Tell it like it is, as the instruction goes

I drove down from London to Sigogne this weekend as I had both my cars in London for MOTs bad timing having them both so close together but that’s life. So on Friday morning I drove down to Sevenoaks to leave the car at the train station, this means I do not have to drive out of London in the middel of the day, and it gives me a 20 mile head start on the drive to Dover. The ferry was over an hour late by the time we reached Calais having set off 45 minutes late due to congestion in the ports. ETA in Sigogne was originally 11:00pm so this was going to be a late one. A decision had to be made, do I go via Paris or Rouen. Since we were an hour late I would not hit Paris until after 7:00pm going in from the North so I thought I would risk it hoping that I had missed the rush hour. No such luck and it took an hour and a half to get round Paris all because there was a big jam for one junction on the peripherique, so now I’m another hour late, but the rest of the went without incident and I arrived home at 12:45am so I made up some time, as the roads south of Paris were empty.

Another weekend of work saw a bit more progress on the bathroom though not as much as I would have liked as I had to keep re positioning a wall where the shower was due to be installed. I re plumbed it 3 times!! But hopefully the wall and the pipe work for the shower are now in the right place.

Bogdan our builder is making good progress on the main rooms, my new bigger hallway has been made, 30 centimeters wider than the old one, but nearly 2 meters higher at its highest point so it should give more of a feeling of space as people walk up the stairs, everyone has been laughing at me for moving a wall 30cms so I hope I will be proved right, otherwise it will be known as Darren’s folly.

The weather was aweful, it rained almost the whole weekend, with a big storm on Saturday night/Sunday morning, so it was a staying in weekend. Franca did lots of Christmas Craft work with Fleur, which meant I could get on with working almost undisturbed, which was really great of her as she looks aftrer Fleur all week on her own. The slight down side is that Fleur is now getting exited about Christmas and its only the 1st of December. This coming weekend I have to put up the Christmas lights on the outside of the house, so Fleur can help me do that. so I hope the weather is going to be better than last weekend. Then the following weekend it will be time to decorate the Christmas tree and the inside of the house, if Fleur can wait that long.

Cheers for now….