Monday 21st December

As you can see from yesterday’s post, it has been a bit of a whirlwind – the last few days.  We got to Wales about nine last night (Saturday).  The house is rented to a water-sports enthusiast who only uses it a few weekends when he isn’t flying round the world maintaining jet engines.  It was cold and windy when we arrived and our first problem was to get the central heating working as the pilot light was out.  After a couple of tries we got it working and pretty soon we were warm.

But I slept badly, may be all the travelling, or just the relief that all the planning had worked and I managed to get round to seeing all my grandchildren.   And I have been tired all day.  We had a few chores to do and some cleaning and packing up of china for the new house in France.  We went out for a Chinese buffet meal; it was actually our two year wedding anniversary which is some achievement.  So a big thank-you to my lovely wife and that is all I have to say.  Heading to bed soon, tomorrow is another day.  Hopefully I will not be so tired tomorrow.