http://aquitainediary.com Fireman, builder, barrister then France. A rosbif's frog blog. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:31:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I moved to South West France for good weather and right now I am wondering where it is. Last May was a bit of a washout and a lot of this May and early June is the same. Merde! http://aquitainediary.com/2008/06/03/rain-rain-rain/ Well  it has been a hectic summer for us and at last we are settled back in our house. The kids are back at school and planning our next year is in the offing. I will be blogging properly again now I have a bit more time and energy. http://aquitainediary.com/2007/09/23/back-in-the-groove/ Cathy's uncle Rod and his wife Jane are visiting for a few days which makes the extended family total eight plus our five. The suggestion of going on the river came up and canoe hire at Tremolat was arranged with Peter Checkley of Aquafun. On arrival at the river Cathy and ... http://aquitainediary.com/2007/08/03/canoes-and-crocodiles-on-the-dordogne-river/ We have put the cottage at Granges Haut, Cahuzac up for sale again as the buyers pulled out just before signing. The used the 'clause suspensive' regarding the delay in transferring the planning permission to get out of the purchase. Its a bit frustrating, as the notaire was so slow dealing ... http://aquitainediary.com/2007/07/21/bad-news-with-the-sale-of-our-cttage/ I have had a very hectic few weeks running up to letting our house for the summer. We have our first guests in now who are a very nice three generation German/French Canadian bunch. I will be back with more very soon. http://aquitainediary.com/2007/06/20/sorry-i-have-been-so-busy/ With the election of Sarkozy is France going in a new direction?  I was very surprised to see that Lot et Garonne had a majority in favour of Sarkozy.  Last time round the vote went in favour of Le Pen.  Is this a surprise or does it indicate that the ... http://aquitainediary.com/2007/05/09/a-new-president-for-france-and-shed-loads-of-strikes/ A couple of days ago i noticed that the In Aquitaine forum was rplaced by a single word 'merhaba'. I think that the site has been hacked by a Turkish person to what ends I dont know.   I will endeavour to get it back soon. Sorry folks. http://aquitainediary.com/2007/05/07/in-aquitaine-forum-gone-missing/ Last week the kids braved the pool for the first time this year.  We had been checking the pool temperature daily and it duly arrived at a whopping 20 deg C.  In they went but, not for me as I thought it was freezing.  In fact they used the pool three days ... http://aquitainediary.com/2007/05/02/first-swim-of-the-season/ It is so good to spend the day working outside. Its been a mixed bag of different things over the last few days. cutting grass, scraping off high spots and filling holes to make mowing easier.  Putting glyphosate weedkiller all around the outside of the buildings to keep the nastiest ... http://aquitainediary.com/2007/04/16/nice-to-be-outside-again/ The French are efficient in one area it seems.  Having exceeded a 90kph speed limit (caught hidden officer with radar gun) on Monday 26 March a demand for 45€ (or more if you dont pay quickly) dated 26 March was received by me at home on Wednesday 28th March.  Has French ... http://aquitainediary.com/2007/04/03/speeding-fine-for-2-kph-at-record-speed/