The good news in my last post is even better news now. I got my car back last night and my partnerās car broke down just now. Good job I got mine back!
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Cheerful news for the many SF folks receiving pensions (I suspect relatively few will have seen this announcement from the PM on Friday evening, so re-posted here for convenience).
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and we must cross our fingers for next yearā¦ 
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Marvellous āold folksā partyā today. Phew, only 6 courses this year to fight our way through 
but it was all delicious and we danced/pranced to the disco in between courses.
It was a real pleasure to see so many pals and chat with some of the oldies weāve lost touch with over the last year (for one reason or another). Much fun and laughter as I tried to persuade āem to get up and dance.
Phew, finally staggered home and now enjoying a very welcome cuppa. 
OH reckons weāve eaten enough to last the week, so it will be very light meals for the next few days.
Icing on the cake was when the Adjoint asked me to payā¦ then blushed with embarrassment when he realised we were both āofficial oldiesā and can eat for free. Me, I was thrilled that he thought I looked āso youngā 
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Went into the cabinet medical in our new place today to ask about signing on, expecting it could be difficult. Not a bit of it! Instead it was more a question of which doctor Iād prefer. Very happy.
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UK tax return filed and paid. Yay us. 
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Thatās ācheerfulā newsā¦? 
Iāll gladly take money from you in the future, if it makes you happy, AM 
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Itās cheerful to have fulfilled ones obligations and not having them still outstanding. As for money, having enough and not needing to worry about funding a tax bill is a wonderful thing.
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I do hope you find one who understands your particular problems.
I have had problems with new doctors and have tried to explain that most people are in the norm, some of their patients they never see and that I am on the other end of the scale with my conditions almost always being out of the ordinary.
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Colonoscopy accomplished successfully yesterday - some polyps removed but fewer than three years ago IIRC.
Main stress factors were a) forgetting to charge my phone so I only had 17% battery on arrival, and b) finding that the app operated by the wallies who run Tescoās car park would not let me pay for extended parking ābecause all our allocated spaces are in useā.
There was of course tons of space in the car park.
Fortunately the Royal Surrey were pretty speedy with my procedure and I got back to my car on the nose of two hours (the free parking limit) so I am hopeful I will have avoided a Ā£70 fine!!
If I get a ticket I shall dispute it as the ālimited spacesā thing is not advertised and I made repeated attempts to pay which delayed meā¦
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Actually three of our friends caught the āflu from going to the Meilleurs Voeux for the last time of our best ever Maire.
I hope it was someone who didnāt know they were infected because it would have been extremely selfish if not.
Actually three sufferers is only those we are aware of, so there could have been many more who caught it as the Salle is always full for this popular event.
Thatās why I go shopping in the big stores at lunch time when most folks want to get to the trough. Our commune good wishes event is this Friday but I will not go as the flu is still rampant and we could not even take the little one upto the ski slopes las weekend as the doctor said it would be too much for her little lungs. On another happy note, blue skies and sunshine are back again and all my flooded garden has no water on it unlike the house at the front who paid a man last week to install some drainage and its worse than ever and the house owner admitted to my son this morning that he had put the pipe in far too high for the water to flow into the drain. Mind you their land is not level either which is something that should be sorted first to enable water to flow towards a down point.
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My cheerful news is that Orange (or rather the guys from SOGETREL) has installed and activated my fibre connection at our new place, so I can WFH from there now.
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We too have sunshine after being in the freezing fog for days.
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Time to get outside and soak it up.
Iām thrilled that some laundry has almost dried in the fresh air todayā¦ just grabbed it now to finish indoors as the spots of rain are threateningā¦ aaargh.. but it does smell wonderful.
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Thatās one of my favourite smells from fresh washing thatās dried on the line. Iāve envious of you Stella - weāre weeks away from being able to put the washing outside. Itās rain tonight, rain tomorrow and rain for the next 10 days. One of my mumās favourite sayings when it was raining was āItās raining cats and dogs and I stepped in a poodleā. 
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I just noticed a few hours of āno rainā on the forecast and took a gamble. Now itās Rain from now until next Christmas I reckonā¦
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Tried a small local place today to get a load of gravel. Standard process as with a lot of these places - put the car on the weighbridge, then take it to where the chap uses a jcb to tip in a load of gravel, then back the he weighbtidge, pay and leave. They were a young (compared to me0 couple running this and were delightful. It was all so much easier than the bigger places. 300kg of gravel for under 15 euros didnāt seem bad to me.
One strange thing was that in the tiny shop part of the business, there were some sacks of animal food but, on the counter, a number of 5kg bags of locally milled flour. That was all there was. Strange mix of products but I shall definitely give the flour a go. T55 so pretty general purpose.
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Sounds like it could be hard going, bread with gravel in it 
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