Monday 16 December 2019

Seasonal Greetings!



And so we come to the one post I do manage to make every year! Here are the pictures from our home-made Christmas card. We don't send many actual cards out, so chances are you won't have had one - please accept this greeting instead. Our donation in lieu of buying commercial cards this year is to Sands - the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity.

The main picture above is the roof of the Hotel Alliance Couvent des Minimes, which we took in February with the New Year, or St Sylvestre, balloons still up in the glass roof. We shall be there again for Christmas this year.

The eye is in Bristol - at the bottom, appropriately, of Christmas Steps. Mr Bufo found it when he was exploring while I was at the Diana Wynne Jones conference in August. Apparently this was once the window of a pub where they had to watch out for the Press Gang. Now blocked, the mural in its place is a reminder of the bad old days.



We send you all every good wish for a Happy Christmas 
and a Good New Year! 


Thursday 12 December 2019

Where has the time gone?

Well, another dismal failure to keep up the blog for most of the year. Will be putting up our seasonal greetings here soon, but not before we have actually posted the cards with the same picture on.

The new boiler mentioned in the previous post has been working well, but the pipework has given some trouble - at one stage we were having to bleed the radiators twice a day! The firm who did the installation work refused to get involved as they didn't work for our energy supplier any more, and said only the boiler was guaranteed; our energy supplier would only refer us to their own maintenance contract people, but we have our maintenance contract with another firm, so we called them out, and they were very helpful, and advised that we need to raise the header tank to increase pressure within the system. So that's being done next week.


Am very grateful we shall be elsewhere for Christmas... 



Meanwhile, here's a picture of one of our days out this summer.