Party time

Not much time this week to get the blog written as moving date is speeding towards us at a 100 miles per hour and we're under orders from Stephané Regourd to get all the plasterboards in place for when he returns later this week. So it's out with the placo adhesive & on with the dot & dabbing, in-between packing up all our worldly goods again. The EDF devis arrived this week & it was itemised down to the smallest detail including €207.00 for opening a file! No wonder EDF can afford to be a key sponsor of the London Olympics. I showed the devis to Stephané & Thierry and there followed a three way conversation in which Stephané attempted to explain the detail of it to Thierry in English. Thierry reminded him he was French!

We have had time for a little relaxation & on Saturday night it was an early finish & on with the glad rags & off to Thierry's 50th birthday party. Appears all the best people are 50 this year. Whether it's because they owned a hotel & restaurant for several years or it's just a French thing but the food & hospitality were great despite us eventually sitting down to eat at 10:45 (we arrived at 7:45). In all fairness there were lots of aperitifs & canapés to keep us going. As always we were made very welcome & thoroughly enjoyed the fireworks & disco although singing along to 'Viva Espana' in French was a little surreal.