The Honeymoon- Me and the wife

Jules and I are now in France. Have been since the 11th of March. We started in Paris and moved on to the Loire Valley for a few days. From there we have travelled to the coast and north a bit and now are in a place called Quimperle. The hotel is quite good but haven't seen the town yet.
So far we have had a wonderful time. The weather has been good. Bright and sunny days, and cool nights, which didn't bother us as we were tucked up in bed!!
The people of France have been very kind considering that neither Jules or I can speak very much french. We have got by and achieved various degrees of communication. It has been fun, even for the French who do have a sense of humour!
The mini is going great guns. Jules has been doing a good job of navigating along roads that don't exist, at least not on the map, and helping to overtake the slower cars and lorries. The mini has however sustained an injury, a cracked windscreen, which we are hoping will last the trip before being replaced, the windscreen that is, not the mini, might just be a bit excessive to replace the car because of a cracked windscreen....
Only a few days left so its off to bed.... yippy


For more photos see James and Jules web site...

The final week

It's now Tuesday morning and the rain is lashing down. The countdown to my wedding has started properly now. Four days to go and still so much to do... Tonight we are having dinner with some friends, who happen to be my "adopted parents" in that I've adopted them and thankfully them me! It should make a welcome break in the hectic lead-up to 'The Day". I'm glad this is the only one I'll do, weddings, that is.
It's now Thursday and I've just finished work for the week and the next two. The dinner on Tuesday was good.
Yesterday we had a rehearsal at the church which went well until Jules couldn't find her purse. We searched everywhere but it was gone... something we didn't really need just now, but life goes on.
Today and tomorrow we are doing all the little things before the BIG DAY.

Plans...

Graham and Eleanor are here for a wedding. Not just any wedding, but the wedding of their eldest daughter to me. The plans are going well, and if everything goes to plan, we should be wed by midday next Saturday.

Visitors From South Africa

Jules and I, and Jules sister Lisa went off to Heathrow early this morning to collect the "In-Laws-to-be", Graham and Eleanor. They touched down at 6:25 am and come through at about 7 am. A quiet drive back to Cheshunt along the M25 with no hiccups saw an hour pass by. Lisa got some O2 sim cards for their phones and got them going.
Its good to see them again. I last saw them when I visited South Africa a few months ago, and to hear thier quaint accents made me smile...

Just a Quickie

I now have a "Blogger Client" software, which means I can now write up some posts, save them on my computer and then upload them when the mood takes my fancy, and I'm on line of course.
So there you have it. The bit of software I'm using is Ecto, for the mac. As I've only just got it working, I don't really know what it can do...
Time will tell
Have a good week and weekend