Springtime

I had a good weekend and 2010 is already starting to seem like a very long time ago. Spring in the south of France is definitely upon us and we even saw the first lizard of 2011 in the back yard. I managed to spend large parts of Saturday and Sunday out and about; firstly with Pich who was very well behaved, and then with Maxime and the new bike we bought to enable us to whizz around the local lake.

At the minute things are going well – Sandie is happy to be seeing a bit more of me and all three of the kids are happy and healthy. Work is going well and there should be some interesting developments to tell you about as well over the next few weeks. Maxime was also impeccably behaved at mass on Sunday, or so I thought until an elderly woman at the end congratulated me for being so patient..... reading between the lines was always one of my strengths. On reflection, I think the only thing she really could have complained about were Maxime repeatedly licking a stone pillar, him whispering to me, loudly, for about 20 minutes that he had done a “caca” (sort of ruins the sacrament of the Eucharist for some apparently), or the fact that he brought the entire pile of mass sheets to me from the church entrance, one by one.