Birthday boy, reading and more dust

St Benoit

Yesterday's weather: Will it never stop raining?

IT'S LEO'S FIRST BIRTHDAY TODAY. HAVE A LOVELY DAY, LEO XXXXXXXXX



I finished a book yesterday. It's The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney. I won't give anything away but I struggled a little with it. I still can't make up my mind whether I enjoyed it or not.

I joined a reading group recently. We all live quite some distance from each other so the plan is to meet up every three or four months to discuss the books we have been reading. Soon it will be my turn to select the book of the month and I'm not sure how to go about it. The books we've read so far seem to have been picked at random from Amazon's top sellers, so I'd like to be completely contrary by selecting something different. Maybe Five go to Smuggler's Top by Enid Blyton - that's pretty different. I always liked George best in the Famous Five, but I think I secretly wanted to be Anne, the girly girl who had to be looked after all the time.


Jon is reading all the book group books too and we have time to discuss them between ourselves before we get to say anything to the others. Jon is way ahead of me in our personal reading list. This is partly because I am a sudoku addict - and also because I write the blog. The good thing about sudoku is that I can buy them here in France because the rules are the same!



Jon finished off the window this morning. We hope that we will soon be at the point where we can paint the kitchen but there is more work to do in there first. Of course now that the window has gone in, the hall and stairway need painting again too. They lead into the lounge so that will also have to be done, and I haven't even started on the bedroom yet. I'm still supposed to be renovating the wooden floors but I lost heart again yesterday when my nicely waxed floors went pink with all the brick dust. I'll get back to them again soon, especially if it never stops raining.

The pink hue around the house is still there, even though we had another thorough clean yesterday, and the dust still feels as if it is in our every pore. No wonder the cats don't appear to want to stay home much at the moment - three pink dusty cats, we would only be able to tell them apart by the miaow!

An update on the shed/garden room/bedroom, second shed and shower purchase is that I did hear from the bank that I could set up a transfer if I added another function to our bank account for a further four euros a month! Needless to say I told them what to do with their additional functionality. I contacted the company we are buying from and eventually we decided that I would send them a cheque. They should have received that now and the goods should be with us in three weeks - but watch this space! We still don't know exactly how they will be delivered, whether the sheds are in panels or slats so we don't know how long they will take us to put up, but hey, every day another challenge!