What can I say - It's been freezing.............................Still it's better than the 36 degrees Brisbane had overnight or the 40 degree Melbourne days.
Don't miss that at all.
We are still working on the heating in the house. Things like making thicker, heavier curtains. Making draft stoppers at the doors, ensuring all drafts are covered or sealed. We have a doggy door left over from the previous owner which is letting in cold air into the kitchen so that's the next task to fix - although won't be a problem once the renovations are complete.
We were invited over to a French friend's house for dinner and drinks just after Christmas.What a lovely night we had with her family and friends.
We were served a traditional french evening meal along with lots of wine and champagne.
Rejane then pulled out a spray can of snake repellent which I found to be totally hilarious.Just had to take a photo of it.
Perhaps I could import these into Australia.
She sprays it around the entrance to her house during summer.
Apparently the snakes don't like the smell.
Our New Year was celebrated with pre dinner drinks at our place.We then headed 2 doors up to the Salle Polyvante (local hall) where we had more drinks and a 6 course meal and dancing.
A great night to see in 2017.
We finished up at about 3am but the rest kept going until after 4am.
The party gets wild......
Pete, Bill and a french neighbour.
Saw this HUGE pack of pasta in at the supermarket.
All this for only 2.14 euros.
Now if we get snowed in we can live on pasta.
More socialising this week with a few lunch dates, morning tea's, markets, meeting with the bank manager (and he rang us to arrange out of the blue so we are not sure if we should be concerned or not).
Had a couple of opportunities for house sitting which we passed up for now as we want to get some of these projects completed around the house. One was in Bergerac and the other was Paris for a week - bugger. But there's always next time.
Wendy
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