New Year, old Me.
Top Tip for Paris visitors
Don’t miss the last train home as you either have to
get a train back to somewhere that’s miles away or (as we did) spend the night
in a cheap hotel with the sound of the metro rumbling below your bed.
Christmas was lovely with huge amounts of yummy food (the
table looked like the Christmas scene at Hogwarts!) and New Year’s Eve was fab
with a houseful of family and friends, lots of black and gold decorations and
some very large speakers playing great tunes ('including oops upside your head’).
I looked back on last year's post about New Year resolutions
and they were:
1.Work more in the garden
2. Stop procrastinating
3. Get a job
Well, I did 2 out of the 3. Trouble was that getting a
job limited how much time I could work in the garden but we still managed to
get a lot done last Summer.
For 2024 they are:
1. Read more - I have a row of new books plus my
Kindle that I want to get through.
2. To be more focused/organised
3. To have a vegetable garden that consists of more
than a few sad looking herbs.
Us folk in Normandy are a bit obsessed with the
weather it has to be said, I think it’s because it’s so changeable at the
moment. On Tuesday morning it was -5 and yesterday there were flood warnings! I
woke up this morning to a beautiful white garden except for the bits that were still
flooded.
Fortunately, our house sits up quite high from the
lake and the stream that runs behind it. It did not stop me panicking a few weeks
ago and yelling to Tim “get sandbags, we are going to need sandbags!! Tim assured me that they were not necessary to
which I replied “well on your head be it!” How weird that in a moment of crisis
I should start quoting from King James Version of
the Bible (Psalm 7:16 and Acts 18:6)
not that I realised it at the time (I’ve just looked it up!)
Talking about the weather, I used to work for a Scottish Company: I was
based at the London office and they were in Dundee. Every morning they would
call and tell me it was raining, I wanted to say “well that’s your own fault
for living in Scotland” but I didn’t. As Billy Connolly once said when people complained
to him that it had rained when they visited Scotland “of course it ******* rains!
take a coat!” - wise words.
Some of our friends pack up and go South from January
to February which I think is a cracking idea and saves a fortune on heating
bills. We would have done this year but we are away in March so we will just
have to wrap up and keep drinking red wine to keep warm (that’s one resolution
that’s gone out the window!).
My other resolution should surely be to ensure I write
a blog every month, as I know you cannot live without them (I wish!).
Anyway, happy New Year everyone! We have new year’s
drinks at the Mayor’s office tomorrow (or Monsieur Le Maire as he is called
here) or as they call it le verre de l’amitié. That means a glass of friendship-
take more than one glass I can tell you.
I will report back next month, here’s hoping we don’t
make complete fools of ourselves.
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