2008-12-31 New Years Party at Le Sahuc

Cheryl and Roger threw a wonderful New Years Party, I had my 1/2 glass of champagne !! As caught on camera...............here are pictures:-


Cheryl puts the last log on the fire at midnight............goodbye 2008 Hello 2009 !!!

Karen & Roger
Cheryl the quiz master!
All of us around the table.
Frederic using his pea shooter!

Cheryl, Karen, Myself and Roger

our hosts!
Illios and Malou (i don't expect i've spelt there names correctly) SORRY.......
Trying out the strange English tradition of wearing a paper hat, and having great fun in the process..............

Frederic and Almuth wearing thiers too !!

2008-12-26 More Snow Pics

Rather a lot of snow filled pictures, some of you will hopefully recognise certain places, although they do look very different in the snow ...........














terracing under the chestnut trees, as never seen before!











This is the bench we were all sitting on yesterday (Christmas day) !!!

2008-12-26 Boxing Day 2008 SNOW

What a shock..............yesterday SUN today SNOW about 8cm and still falling !!

2008-12-25 Chistmas Day 2008

We had a rather unconventional Christmas, there was only us 4 left in Cailho, so we had a CURRY.......all veggie of course, 4 different sorts, and i forgot to do any rice, but we had plenty to eat and plenty for the freezer for those impromptu "Indian take- away's" .
As you can see it was a beautiful day plein soleil .............

2008-12-24 Christmas at Dausse

Although it was tempting, I did not succumb to a drink over Christmas


We were invited to Dausse to eat the last Lotto prize (3 birds, chicken, duck and quinea fowl) before decending to St Etienne to try to win some more!

we had this dinner with 4 other friends of Frederic and Almuth's, Iris, Klaus Ushi and Wolfgang...I hope I have spelt them all correctly!!

Frederic practicing surgery..........

2008-12-14 Jonathan

My Beautiful Grandson.........eating his chips


playing with his new lego

Bringing in the troops help in the construction.............

and the troops get stuck in !!!!

Tom and Jonathan ...............

Jon playing lotto




Granny Jane and Jon
Jon counting out the chips for Chantel (mother of Karine, Emily and Stephane sisters of Karine)
a merman
back to the school play

2008-12-14 Jon's School play.........

Jon's School play................

This was an African drum and dance routine!!


Here is Tom........... he is part of the french version of the "PTA" (forth one along, I won't point out the obvious)

The finale..........