Friday 20 June 2008

Charming French rhyme

This morning I was telling one of my French friends about this miracle wrinkle cream - sorry got to keep it a secret otherwise the price may go up! After explaining all the "skin tightening" benefits this cream gives my friend told me a little French rhyme and it goes like this:

Les chameaux dans le désert
Ont la peau tellement tendue
Que - quand ils ferment les paupières -
Ils ouvrent le trou du cul

Camels in the desert
Have their skin so taut
That - when they close their eyelids -
They open their asshole

Wednesday 18 June 2008

Transhumance - June 2008




It's moments like this ...!


Thursday 5 June 2008

Oops!

My son used to call out rather sweetly, "Mummy - Bob the builders are here". However, the other morning that changed to, "Mummy - the bloody builders are here"!

Now who did he get that from... Oops!

Monday 2 June 2008

We've got the builders in!

Have been neglecting my blog recently as "we've got the builders in".

Reading and taking advice from plenty of ex-pats, who have completed or are undertaking building projects, I made sure I had the following before project start date:

Signed and approved plans
Building permission
A signed Devis pour le Travaux
Bottle of Aspirin
Plenty of tea bags

All ready to go I thought to myself and to be fair the first few days went well and then: .........

The main guy started making alternative decisions to those on the plans
Sitemeetings are not quotidienne, but on the fly with client neither included or informed
The signed Devis it seems has to be now more than flexible
I have run out of aspirin
Most upsetting of all I have run out of my Yorkshire teabags

All advice welcome about how to survive this - have another 2 months to go.

AU SECOUR

Oh and don't get me started about the rain!!!!