It is extremely good news !!!
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Excellent.
Thatās brilliant news John!
Had my summer cut and colour today, love a new haircut and enjoying being short again! 
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I never set foot in a kitchen untill I got mrried. He showed me how to boil an egg. My way was to swish them back and forth across a frying pan of boiling water with a wooden spoon. (Actually works just as well !
Lots of memories for me to, particularly all the antics that were replaced by screens. Surprisingly enough, I have noticed that the youngsters are prepared to put their phones down at the beach if someone produces a ball. Most pastimes tended to be free back in the day but nowadays everything requires a credit card. I was a kid in the 50s and I rememer lots of talking and comparing notes with others. The youngsters these days seem to avoid real 1 on 1 communicatio. Life revolves on instant replies to textx and āLikesā. So sad !
I do take the point about tiny babies not making it and no kind of counselling being available to mothers. It happened to my Mum 3 times and I donāt think she ever got any help of any kind. I know my Dad told me about being handed a cardboard box which he had on his knee on the front seat of the bus. Grim.
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Arrived in Bergerac yesterday. Very pleasant campsite opposite the Sport Nautique boat club. Some very enthusiastic woman single skullers on the Dordogne.
Up early this morning for a lad (Alfie dog) and dad walk along the river. Blue sky, sun shining and looking forward to exploring the town.
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Opened a couple of tins of clams last night and saved the juice in the fridge.
This evening mixed a passable Clamato Bloody Mary - the first Iāve had for many years and brought back memories of good times long ago in Torontoā¦
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Very good to know @JohnBoy Weāre always keen to know about acceptable camp sites. Trip advisor (not that I normally look at it) has ghastly reviews for yours, which is puzzling, but I guess it depends what you want from a site (not much in our case, apart from quiet and a sanitation block)
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@AngelaR Trip advisor comments make me smile, people like to complain rather than praise. The facilities at this campsite arenāt new but are clean and tidy. We have all on board facilities we need but prefer to use site facilities when possible rather than refilling water tank and emptying cassette daily.
The pot washing area is undercover and outside with plenty of hot water.
The showers are inside with plenty of hot water and a big enough dry area to undress and dress.
The tiolet block is again clean and tidy but no tiolet seats which is easily remedied by a fashioned paper seat!
The pitches are enormous.
Campsites are not 4 star hotels although some think they should be.
This morning the market in the town centre was massive and amazing, as is the town in general.
If we were thinking of relocating from our current home then Bergerac would have our serious consideration.
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Thanks for the full review - much appreciated! Sounds like itās got everything we would wantā¦
@JohnBoy I might bump into you this afternoon! If you see a short fat old woman with white hair and a round pink face stumping along the street itās probably me 
@Tory I can give you that slicer if you are in Bergerac!!
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Had the car washed this morning, ready for the trip over next weekend. I think weāre going to be full again on this run.
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That reminds me I need to fix the foam nozzle attachment thingy that came with my pressure washer, as it got blocked up and stopped working. Weāve had lots of pollen from pine trees covering everything recently, but it seems to be easing off so I can start washing the car and garden furniture again now.
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For me one of the problems of getting older is my arms have grown shorter or my legs have got longer resulting in huffing and puffing to tie my laces.
Our daughter persuaded me to buy a pair of Skechers shoes which cost some 3 times more thanI would nornally pay.
Wow!
A game changer, no more laces, ultra comfortable and a dream to put on and take off. They are specifically designed to simply push your foot into guided by a hardened rear area and once on perfectly hug your foot.
I have walked miles in them this weekend and they donāt rub, fitting like sheepskin slippers.
I now hope they will last a long time as I tend to get through shoes quickly, we shall see.
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They are wonerfully comfortable, had two pairs but notice when they wear out they do it quickly.
After many promises fibre arrived in our hamlet last week, or at least finally connected to the installation that has been going on for the last year or so.
We have signed up and within 3 days our replacement Orange box arrived however the connection will not happen until the end of next month so the installation technicians must be very busy.
Hope its worth the wait.
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I made some lovely hummus, soaked my chick peas the day before yesterday, cooked them yesterday, made the hummus today. Itās delicious.
I had some chickpeas left over (they didnāt fit into the robot) so the devil naturally found work for idle chickpeas and I made a recipe for ābrowniesā I found it online, curiosity is clearly its own punishment, anyway Iām just telling you so you arenāt tempted.
Donāt. Just donāt.
They arenāt brownies, nobody who ever had a brownie would call them that, they are a travesty. Iām going to eat them because waste not want not and they arenāt actively disgusting, and you canāt give cocoa to hens, but be warned. They look ok but appearances are deceiving.
However I also made bao and nem and rouleaux de printemps so lāhonneur est sauf.
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Since weāve got on a food theme, the beef stew I prepared this morning was also very pleasing, courtesy of a nice bit of brisket from Tesco, and will be good for another couple of meals this week. Having the Rayburn running makes cooking on the top a relative bargain.
I also re-bottled the slow gin, apple vodka and some elderflower gin (incredibly intense flavour, that has the longest finish of any pleasant drinks I can remember) thatās been sat in the shed for a couple of years settling out. Thereās also 2L of rum that went onto the pre-loved sloes in Feb last year that Iāve now re-bottled to settle.
And now weāre just sorting out the stuff to bring over, doing docs etc ready to travel soon. 
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