Hello folks, well I am back again after a somewhat longer break from writing this blog, than I expected. Its an interesting day to come back too as it is All Saints day in the Christian calendar, which as I am sure you are all aware comes a day after All Souls day, or as most people know it these days, Halloween.
Up to this weekend my daughter Fleur has always been afraid of Halloween and we have had to close the gates and keep a low profile so that she was not frightened by trick or treaters. This weekend all that changed, having been fed a diet of Halloween editions of all her favourite TV programs for the last 3 weeks, she wanted to dress up for the Halloween party we were going to on Saturday night. We did not have much time so we had to try and make a Halloween costume, and whilst she enthusiasticall y joined in the printing cutting out and colouring of all the Halloween bits and bobs we were going to sew onto her Princess dress, once they were all tacked on she suddenly came over all self concious and thought she looked stupid, so they were all ripped off again. So she went to the party as a normal princess, this time next year I think we will be in full Halloween and trick or treating mode. Fleur even plucked up courage to come and see the costumes from the 2 trick or treat visits we received on Halloween night, which were very good. Next year we have a lot of work to do I think, the children of Sigogne set the costume bar very high!!
For some reason I was in the work groove on Saturday and so I worked on our latest project from 10am until midnight, and then went to the afore mentioned party until 4:00am. So I was mightly pleased to discover there was an extra hour for sleep, courtesy of the clocks being turned back one hour. But I was still awake again at 10.00 and back working on the house, the French think we are mad, they are probably not that far wrong.So we had a really busy weekend, we have once again ended up with a challenging target to get some building work completed before our next B&B guests arrive. I think we will just about make it, I have a whole weekend to point an internal stone wall and finish off re routing some electrical cables, so it should be achieveable provided I do not meet any unforseen challenges along the way.
Franca's mum has been through the mill over the last 6 weeks, with 3 operations to blast away a tumour in her bladder. She is well on the road to recovery now, but it did mean we had some unplanned visits to Rotterdam, which is never a bad thing, but as usual the timing was not perfect, but that is life all over, we are just pleased the Franca's mum is fit and well again.
Until the next time...
