Hello!!!!!
Well I have skimmed through the thread I left and searched my name in the last thread but can find no clues as to what this thread title concerns I can tell you that I do indeed have a lovely tan as temp was up in 80s at least all week! I also have a couple of bottles of wine, some Tia Maria (J's friend wanted some and it was buy 1 get 1 half price on the ferry so thought he can full price 1 and I'll have the half price 1!), some brie and pate, lots of chocolate, possibly an extra half stone and a rather nice bottle of local liquer from St Cirque Lapopie but thats it Well that and 4 3 very over tired children who've been staying up till 11pm most nights and then sleeping in the day so not tired again the next night!
Holiday was absolutely fab, weather was glorious, we all did loads of swimming in the pool, went to some amazing towns, nice picnics, and Le foret de Singes wghere the monkeys wander freeely and eat popcorn from your hands! Although obviously vast amounts of popcorn because you have to get right up to them to for them to take it, if they have to reach at all they wont bother!! DC really loved it, all 3 of them would have happily spent the whole week in the pool! Although it seemed to have a lot of chlorine in it which irritated D's ezcema so we tried to limit his time but there was a paddling pool too that kept him happy.
BIL and SIl were fine for most of the week until the last 2 days (may go into that more later!) but generally fine as were rest of ILs.
Completely knackered now though after lots of drunken late nights and early mornings. Left Cahors at 10am yesterday and got to Caen at 10.30pm last night A combination of lack of funds and wanting to see some of France on our last day led to us programming the Sat Nav to avoid all motorways and toll roads and taking The Scenic Route. Which would have been fine had we not hit Tours at roush hour while it seems to be in the middle of a complete over work of all its roundabouts and junctions That and the small bladders and large tummys of my children!!
Anyway off to load holiday pics onto computer now!
Can anyone give me a brief run down of what I've missed please. And by that I mean on this thread, mumsnet on the whole, throughout England, anything major in BB (was only half following before I left when bored!), Eastenders (set sky+ to record it but then J unplugged it before we left!) and life in general!! I've not picked up a paper or watched telly or listened to radio all week (despite the house having English sky and J's grandparents watching it regularly I refused to have any contact with English life!).
And apologies for my spelling and general crappiness of this post but I am very tired!