Food etc.....

Hi all

The web is intermittent here, hence the time it's taken to get to publishing something. Firstly, it is pretty wonderful here, but we miss you all! Daniel was just going through the list of friends and family that he misses, and us, ours. But, with the help of beaucoup de chevre (much goat's cheese) and grapes, raspberries, peaches, baguettes, brie, rose, breton beurre (the butter is fab), haricots verts, marscapone and cream fraiche - we're getting by. Monday we went to the mediaeval town of Mirepoix and bought much of the above. David purchased 2kg of grapes, which I thought over the top, but they're almost gone. There were so many Frenchies at the market (half-10 on a Monday morning), I wondered if any of them actually work. I think they get paid to make the market look authentic. So the food here is wonderful, as is the wine. The music is still shite. At the market it was either the M People or some mediaeval hippies playing flutes. Also, the clothes here are disgusting (apart from kid's clothes). The weather has been super hot - makes it to 40 degrees in the middle of the day, which is a bit too hot. We swam for an hour and a half today. Thank goodness for the pool. The kids are pretty happy. Francis took a while to get used to being over seas, but Daniel has done brilliantly. Francis is now working on crawling (still) and pulling himself up on people and furniture. Not looking forward to seeing what he does with the very steep osh-hazard that is our staircase. Planning some castles this weekend, and the musee de dinosaurs!

Love to you all, and I hope the Wellington weather is treating you okay.

Kxo