Two images that sum up the kind of day we’ve endured 🥵🤬

A bit of respite from the renovations - a pop up restaurant called Palms Nova in Pessac sur Dordogne 👍

Alternative leisure activities - there’s an old saying about “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” going out in the midday sun 🌞. I am vaguely English after all 😎

35 degrees at midday. That’ll be time for a nice cup of Yorkshire tea then. You can take the lad out of the north………..😎

It’s a chimney - now you see it, now you don’t 👍

Silver Wedding Anniversary - just a number 😎

Just a huge thanks to all the UCLAN Business and Marketing Academic Team Group UCLan AF staff for all their ongoing hard work in giving our students the best opportunities to develop holistically through their courses. It’s simply brilliant to see 🤩 #BrilliantBusiness #WorldTeachersDay2022

Meanwhile, in France, the weather is a balmy 28C and a new staircase apparently costs €20,000 😮🤔

My mum went to a chateau for lunch with her friend, she hadn’t been there since my dad died in 2003. The owner recognised my mum and asked after my dad. He then asked her to wait a minute and produced 5 cases of wine my dad ordered before he died. Honourable doesn’t come close❤️

Tonight’s repas at Buckets Auberge in Montazeau - fantastic

Consultation last night with Dr Robert - IYKYK 😎

On tonight’s agenda - The Goo Goo Dolls 👍 Beverages 👍

Nice evening vista from onboard the MV Seven Sisters 🇫🇷😎 Dieppe bound with a fair wind. ⛴️💨

Not the best of beginnings 🙁

Worry about only those things that you can control 😬 Worrying about what might go wrong didn’t prevent this, but a positive attitude got us though it. I can smell croissants 🥐 and coffee ☕️🇫🇷👍

My best friend is now 60 years old, we are becoming “our parents” 😬

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The best types of tea: -The tea brought to you in bed on a Sunday morning -The tea that comforts you after bad news, gives you the energy to carry on -The leaning on the worktop after cleaning the kitchen tea (usually held in two hands) -The “struggle to take a glove off as

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