A very Happy New Year to you Val and Malc, and to all your readers. We had more fireworks here at Baltazar than Paris and Brussels together…Ha! Ha!
And did you watch London’s fireworks? They were fantastic! !!
Family have been visiting mum who has been with us for 2 months now, recovering from a broken pelvis and I must catch on with my mails. I haven’t been in the office very much lately and I am not on top of things anymore.
Yesterday the rain started to fall and mum announced: here is some bad weather…and I thought that actually this is good weather as we need the water so much. Geoff records the rain water ceremoniously and told us that this year we had 230mm less than last year. An average year here sees about 800mm of rain water, so 230mm is quite a lot less… In the summer I’d installed an immersed pump in our well and got all the pipes and connectors and water butts in the orchard and the big barn rain water is now going into the well, used as a reservoir. I am so looking forward to being able to water the trees this year during dry spells.
But we all enjoyed December with its mild weather and the donks especially. Here is a picture Geoff took last week on our walk in the neighbourhood. We cannot let go of their leads anymore like in the woods as all the fields have been planted out and they could potentially make a mess there, but the donks didn’t seem to mind.
INVITATION: On friday 22nd January, Geoff and I will be having Fish and Chips in Septfonds at the “bar des pêcheurs” with some of my mature students, a jolly bunch of artisans from the area learning English at the “Chambre des Metiers” in Montauban. For their sake I would love for those of you expats from the area to join us and give them some English practice as well as a laugh or two. I have suggested to them that we all wear “berêts” so that you’d recognise our group straight away….. We’ve booked our meal for 8.30pm, but we’ll meet around 7.30pm for a drink beforehand. I hope many of you will join us.
And on this, this is goodbye from me until next time.
Val says that sounds so much fun, I will see how many want to come and will get back to you with numbers
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