England

I'm visiting England for four days as the flights with Ryan air were 24€ return and I though it would be nice to spend a couple of days with my mother. The flight over here was really fine. I got to Poitiers in plenty of time and had a really good book (Patrick Graves) which Pippa sent me. What an eye opener! It was heaven to be in plenty of time and not get stressed about missing the flight. I'm going to try and get to Stansted  in plenty of time on Sunday so that I have the same ease going through to get the plane.

It's been fab to spend some time with Tana - poor thing, she's in so much pain. I really hope I die before I get to the sort of stage that she's at. She really doesn't want people to come and visit her

Jill and David's party on Easter Sunday

Well, I had to start a new post because I can't work out how to carry on on the old one. Anyway, as I was saying, some lovely people there : Rob and Karly who bought the Byron's house in Moussac, some friends of theirs called Carl and Clare who had two little children, Helen, who I adore, Hedley and Liz, who had just broken her arm the day before , so we were sling-twins! Nigel and Pauline, who I don't really know but apparently I had shown them some houses before they bought out here a couple of years ago. Karly was singing French nursery rhymes with Harriet and Freddy and they haven't stopped singing them since: bonjour Monsieur, bonjour Madame, bonjour Mademoiselle, je me presente, je suis Hélène Dupuis! A really lovely gay couple  called Nick (who Toby was convinced was not English) and his French boyfriend. I felt as though I had met them before but as it was all rather drunken I can't remember! Jill showed me their bedroom which is finished and looks amazing. Anyway, it was all good fun.