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We're melting!

So after a slightly cooler start to the holiday (i.e. mid 20s and perfect for me), the weather has got properly hot and we're all melting. Currently it's plus 30 at 6:30 in the evening and we're hiding inside - even the pool is too hot. The rest of the family mainly love the heat. I love it when it cools down and we can move around without collapsing into a sticky mess.

The good news this year is that a) the girls understand that suncream is a good thing if you don't want to burn and are pretty good at remembering to apply it, and b) they love, love, love reading on the sun loungers when not in the pool and so it's been an amazingly peaceful time. We've also been blessed by having some friends here for the first part of the week and the kids have loved having Del to play with in the pool - he may be in his 50s but he acts like a 5 year old around water - perfect for them!

We've been here so many times that I snap straight into relaxation mode within minutes of getting onto French soil. It also means that we don't feel any great need to head out for lots of day trips. So far we've been to Rocamadour to see the medieval horse show (this year the theme was James Bond meets Brexit to the tune of Benny Hill...), Abi and I went canoeing this morning and we've been to a couple of markets. Other than that it's been bike rides, walks and lots of time in the pool - just lovely.

While we've been here, hopefully work is continuing to finish our house. We left it all rather fraught, with more misunderstandings than I can count on one hand between us and the contractors. I've never seen such haphazard ways of working and it was driving us mad before we left. This culminated in me having a very heated exchange with the boss while standing in a French supermarket because they had spent all of Sunday masking up to paint while we packed to come away, only to turn up on Monday morning as soon as our backs were turned to unmask so they could go elsewhere this week. Why would you do that?!? As I said to him, if you wanted to delay things for a few days just say so, don't pretend you're getting on with it if you have no intention of doing so. We found all this out because we can see what's happening on the cctv - I think all in all we are his worst nightmare when it comes to a picky customer. We've seen some movement over the weekend, but its obviously not finished and so we wait with baited breath to see what we'll come home to. I just hope it's done. In the meantime I'm determined not to get stressed out by it - I can't do anything while I'm away so why worry over it?


So 4 more days here and then we are heading up to Northern France to have a night in St-Lo and spend a day taking the kids to a couple of the Normandy landing beaches and war memorials before we head back home. Weather is mostly more of the melting variety with some thunderstorms thrown in for good measure. Roll on the rain!








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