Saturday 1st December Arrrgggghhhh! It’s December! How did that happen? I’m sure that last Christmas was only a few weeks ago! I finally had my hair cut a little last week as I was beginning…
Saturday 6th October October has arrived in a volley of flash storms and heavy rain – still warm and sunny much of the time, but a morning sun against a clear blue sky lulls you…
Sunday September 2nd Wow! September has arrived in a flurry of sunshine, with a fanfare of summer still to come. It really is one of the most lovely months of the year in the PO…
Gently into Retirement No 6 – Frantic with Flatpacks Bringing Mum and Dad out at the autumn half-term for their first visit since we’d bought our French home was quite emotional bearing in mind how…
Gently into Retirement No 5 – A Hot Date with a Cool Maître While events were certainly moving along nicely in France with completion set for the first week of September, things were definitely not…
Gently into Retirement No 4 – The Deal is (Finally) Done Mid-way through the half-term break May 2006 and we’d made an offer on a lovely apartment which had been accepted. After aperos (several) and…
Gently into Retirement No 3 – The Deal is (Almost) Done – May 2006 Never did a holiday take so long to come around, the time really seemed to be dragging and the respective solicitors…
Gently into Retirement – the search begins – January to April 2006 After discarding the Christmas lists, the wish lists for our French house (yes, it would most definitely be a house) took over in…
The Way Forward into life! Meet Polly and Steve Cannie, the recent proud owners of a home in Céret. Follow their joys, trials and tribulations as they take you through their own story of…
Tuesday 1st May} I have tried SO hard to be sophisticated and subtle! Moving to France, to a region of wild and unbridled beauty, of culture and tradition, has done nothing whatsoever to ‘culturize’ me…