Ooh! How cruel.
ChrisK has to understand what he has let himself in for on here.
edit I now see he has been on here for while, so already knows.
Tomorrow, I must go to a garage 30 mins away to have a tyre pressure label stuck onto a recently replaced door of my car. They refused to give it to me so I could stick it on myself when I visited last week. ( Having previously said they would send it to me when it arrived.)
Not happy. If I feel my French is up to it, I’ll let them know.
I have now made 3 unnecessary trips to this garage in the course of the repair.
Saga garage in Parthenay, if anyone wants to avoid it, which I advise.
Preparation of re instatement of our lower pond. It had to go 3 years back - but now is the time to reshape, reline and replant.
Digger & Dumpster are hired for next week, pondliner and pump to be aquired this week.
Also -as digger is already in the garden - dig a trench around our bamboo forest and line with metal sheet to keep the d… plant from taking over the world…
Okay folks, I am in the running (was the first, I think) for a great apartment/bottom flat of a two-floor townhouse, with a garden, in Albi. Met the owner/particuleur on Friday, sent all my doc in this morning after my pension got deposited overnight for June. Wish me luck!
Wow, that’s awesome you remembered! It is healing well. Still sore at times, weak in some ways (to be expected) but turns out that moving across the world and having to use your arm [wisely] is great rehab!
Transplanting our first batch of started plants into our garden beds.
And then, on Thursday, my dog finally joins me from the States! The carrier is handling the transport but I’ll be retrieving her and dealing with customs clearance in Frankfurt (on a state holiday, natch).
I remembered because I’ve had both shoulders operated on myself (keyhole surgery). Physio lasted about 6 months on each shoulder but now, 2 years after, I’ve got no problems at all. My physiotherapist told me that each shoulder would take about a year to heal properly so good luck with yours - don’t do too much to aggravate it.
Before we became tax res, our ‘long drive’ used to take three days!
Day one: drive down from NW Cumbria to my mother’s place in Lytham St Annes.
Day two: Early evening Dover - Calais ferry, check-in at the excellent Hotel Meurice and dinner in a fish resto.
Day three; Superb Meurice petit-dejeuner, then floor it down to the Aveyron in hope of arriving before the local restos closed.
Loved anticipating and savouring the pleasures of each day -
but it’s a damn sight better being here all the time.
This is going to be leaving home at 4am for the tunnel at 8 something and home in Cussy by about 5 or sooner. Lunch is likely to be in an aire on the autoroute.
I have been restoring stonework for a few weeks now (re-pointing) and this morning, before breakfast I cast an in-situ window cill. The original is missing from the building and ripped ouy years ago I suspect. Would love to have used stone, but the aglomorate rock is difficult to find and it would in anycase been a tad too heavy to handle at 3 storeys high.
The re-pointing all done with Lime and a melange of sand a gravel but the cill was done with white cement and reinforcement.
Very satisfying but too hot to work after midday now.
Am I correct to presume that the students have to formulate, present and support their own arguments rather than writing something they have learned by rote?
