February Half Time

As anticipated the first half of February was extremely busy with a lot of time spent travelling. The first few days of February were the tail end of our week skiing in Cauterets. The second week started with me leaving to go to Paris in the evening of Sandie’s birthday on the 5th. I successfully dodged an Air France strike on the Monday morning to get to London where I spent the rest of the week. However Air France had the last laugh when they “refunded”, (the polite way to say cancelled), my return flight on the following Sunday morning. Thankfully I had had a feeling that the journey back on the Sunday was going to be “challenging”, (and not just because I’d had a few too many pints the night before as I watched my team Newcastle get thumped 5-0 by Tottenham), so I was up out of bed at the crack of dawn leaving myself enough time to buy a new ticket at the airport at 7.20AM. I had 18 hours or so at home on the Sunday afternoon before heading back off to Belgium, where I spent the first three days of last week. It was nice to get home to Pau last Wednesday night and even nicer to be back in Biarritz with everyone a couple of days ago. It is school holidays for Maxime for the next two weeks so I will try and spend as much time as possible working from Biarritz as Mamie Cathie prepares to takes the strain (Maxime’s three Toulousan cousins are also turning up on next week).