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Bonjour! Hope you are ok today? Dave and I spent the day exploring the coastline of Bretagne  with our good friends Elisabeth and Alain. The weather was great, and the scenery spectacular. It certainly helps when your guide knows where he is!! First stop, La-Trinité-sur-Mer. Fabulous harbour and phenomenal worldclass Catamarans. Millionaire’s playground, if you ask an old landlubber like me! So apparently the Jules Verne Trophy used to be awarded for  sailing round the world in less than 80…

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Hi there. Friday, 13th November. It will go down in history as a very, very sad day. Especially here in France.  We woke up to the country reeling from last night’s events in Paris. No, the world.  It was Grace in New York who flagged the massacre up to us. All the way from America. What dreadful, evil people there are in the world. To open fire on innocent people, to gun them down. I don’t know about you, but…

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Bonjour! Well, here we are in French France, back in Bretagne paradise, celebrating Dave’s 60th in style.  Nobody here except us and our friends, Elisabeth and Alain. The weather is glorious.  When we landed last night, we were given a warm and wonderful welcome. I think that’s why we keep coming back.  The place is idyllic, it really is. But I think it’s the energy of the couple who own it that is truly magic. When we were here in…

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Good evening everyone, Paul here posting on behalf of Barbara! Barbara and Dave are currently driving through France to enjoy some time out and have a bit of a break after a manic few weeks and to celebrate Dave’s Birthday. I must say that when I popped round to see them both on Tuesday evening, every room in the house was full of some amazing birthday cards – it was like walking into an art gallery – so much talent…

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Hi there. Thanks for making the time to read this blog today! You see, that already tells me something about you.  The fact that you take time out of your day to read my blog tells me you MAKE time for things.  This is something that I am having to learn;  to make time to do things other than work. And I bet I am not alone; hands up all those of you  who struggle with the Work / Life balance,…

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Hi there. Thanks for popping in. My day offish, hasn’t actually started yet – and it’s already 3pm!! I’m rubbish at this down time bit, aren’t I. But you should have been here in the kitchen last night, when we finally got in from the NEC. Made a cuppa, and lit a candle,  and then presented dear old birthday boy Dave with all the wonderful cards and gifts you sent him. He could not believe it. All I kept hearing…

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Hi there, Day 4 at the NEC, wearing down, selling out, but very grateful to have had such a fantastic NEC this time. Very grateful full stop. Remembrance Sunday today. So lest we forget, let’s always remember. Here’s a Groovi tribute. Do not stand at my grave and weep.I am not there; I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blow.I am the diamond glints on snow.I am the sunlight on ripened grain.I am the gentle autumn rain.When you…

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Hi there! Thanks for popping in! I turned the blogs round –  Step by step yesterday, private peek today. FOR GOOD REASON. Read on… Greetings from the NEC on day 3. Up and at it early today, because Saturday is usually  the Big One. So if the last two are anything to go by, hold on to your hollyhocks!!! The only downside is it’s Dave’s 60th today, and he’s at home, and I’m up here in Brum. This is when…

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