Thanks Victoria,
I hope it is just a phase as, until he went to school, he spoke in English with me and when we went to visit family in the UK and French with my husband's family. He also spoke English with his little sister and now they communicate solely in French. My daughter who has not yet started school speaks an interesting franglais mixture which my husband's family don't understand! Like you, we live in the country and whilst I know quite a lot of English people near me, they are mostly retired couples who have made a permanent home out here or families with much older children. We have a shortage of English speaking families with small children in the area... maybe I should launch an appeal for families with young children to move down to the Gers- I'm not going too far, am I?