Peter’s Hospital Diary

We are back in France, staying in Mark and Sues house in the Dordogne – this time on our own, although Sue and Mark will be coming out at the end of the week. Our job is to get the house nice and tasty for when they arrive!

But it has been a busy few days since I last posted! On Friday I drove up to Worcester for the training weekend. Thanks to Dawn and the LeukaemiaCARE HQ staff for getting everything ready for the training team (Mike, Steve, Suzy, Elspeth and Myself) and of course thanks to the course for their participation!

I drove home on Sunday afternoon to unpack one bag and pack another before setting off 3 hours later to get the overnight ferry to Caen. We thought that a cabin was a good idea before the 6 hour drive, but it was very noisy! Every minute or so the whole of the fabric of the cabin seemed to resonate with the engine noise for about 20 seconds, before stopping, so it was a restless night.

We disembarked to dry but foggy weather (unfortunate time for one of the headlight lamps to fail – luckily we have fog lights) but as we drove further south the skies cleared and we arrived in warm sunshine and clear blue skies, to set about removing dust covers, clearing the odd mouse trap etc and making a cup of tea. We had been warned that the nights get cold very quickly after sunset, so an early task was getting the fire (a wood burning stove) going!

Today (after a late start – in fact so late that the swimming pool contractor came to prepare the pool for winter and left again having done it without waking us) we have pottered about the house, cut the grass (with the tractor – this picture was taken last time we were here) followed by a trip to the supermarche and the garage to replace the blown headlamp bulb.

And at the moment we are relaxing in front of the woodburner!

Onwards and upwards!