Thursday, September 02, 2004
Things have changed
Saint Ingrid
A minor pause in the weblog due to a few late nights with our friends who came over from England to see us. One family stayed in our gites and another in a gite just around the corner. It's a shame our kids went back to school this week as they could only play with their friends (one boy & three girls) from England on Wednesday and each evening, although we all had a lovely day at Pen Guen beach yesterday.
Early to bed for school gave us a bit more adult time to catch up on things in England and the things the other kids and everyone else has been doing. After just two years we have realised how much our lives have changed compared to what it would have been like if we had not moved to France. I suppose the most notable thing was the amount of time we have compared to everyone else. We seem to have more time to socialise (with friends and our children) and the competitive 'rush rush' attitude in England does not seem to exist here. It helps that we don't spend half our day in the car getting to work or school. I guess this is what search for 'quality of life' is about.
Finished
clearing upstairs in the barn and removed old steel sliding gate from the front
ready for the builders. Some of the floorboards were a bit rotten and there was
evidence of woodworm. I think I may have to get the garden spray out and dowse
everything with woodworm treatment before the plasterboard and insulation gets
fitted.
Caroline bought 6 new point of lay chickens this afternoon. Two brown, two black and two white. At the moment they are all sticking together like new children on the block with the 'old hands' probing the youngsters from the edge establishing the pecking order.
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Things have changed
