A very happy birthday to Emily who is eleven..er actually yesterday, but I did remember a card etc., which I hope got there in time from La Belle France. I often wonder what it is like to have a birthday so near to Christmas - is it double the pleasure or do you feel cheated of a proper birthday? - no need to answer that!
Sorry Emily but it'sthe only one I can find.
Here we are at Briare for this winter but we have already booked a place in Castelmoron, for next winter, which is on the river Lot. So a lot (that's a cracker!) more about this haven in the South, near Bordeaux/ Toulouse, with pictures, as soon as I can next get Lucie off this bloody machine!
I have actually now tried to upload some more pictures but there is some kind of error which stops it happening !..... Then it asks for a report and apologizes for the error. Huh.
Hope you will manage a visit to "Body and Soul" sometime wherever we are, even if it isn't in Briare or Castelmoron. What about spring when the locks re-open, or summer or Autumn before the locks close again!? Some hopes, what with you lot going to China so often.
Happy Birthday and Christmas all in one big sloppy kiss...yuck.
Emily, please keep up the music, it will pay dividends in your long life to come even if sometimes you might find it a chore...and you have plenty of talent as we now know. ...and keep checking this blog for more news and photos when I have got the thing under control.