Happy New Year to everyone – a new decade, wow, how did that creep up on us?! We spent New Year’s Eve sat in front of a giant TV (with lots of remote control things at our disposal!) drinking champagne and seeing in both the French and then the English new year. Not because we especially wanted to see Jules Holland singing Aude Lang Sine, but because the champagne was crying out to be finished.
We have been staying at my aunt and uncle’s house for the last week or so while they have been back at home in the UK. It has been a real change to be back in a fully heated house, with all mod cons and so nice to have some space to ourselves. We have been mainly relaxing and not doing a great deal which is strange but a welcome chance to be a bit lazy.
We also spent Christmas at my Grandparents house nearby, which was also a nice break and great to catch up with the news (both family and world) and generally recharge the batteries. We couldn’t help ourselves though when there was an invitation to burn some rubbish in the garden and to erect a new compost heap! Father Christmas brought Tegan loads of goodies and since it was her birthday too she has some great new things to play with, read and wear. We are now trying to work out how to fit all these nice new things into the already overflowing car………….
Presents!
We have also been doing a few small day trips around the area, including a nice day out to Limeuil in the Dordogne at the confluence of the Dordogne and Vezere.
Playing by the river
Medieval phone box………
The other thing about having this time and space is that we have been able to plan our next WWOOFing steps. We are off to a family near Carcassonne next for three weeks. After that we are not too sure and slightly torn between the idea of going to Spain for a month (just because we can!) and going further east in France. We did have a place organised for February back in the Haute Pyrenees, but have since discovered that the accommodation is not that child friendly. Our last WWOOF in March is all sorted, so it’s just a question of what we do in between. That is the nature of this WWOOFing lark, so many possibilities but it does mean that things change constantly which presents both challenges and problems and new opportunities. Tegan copes really well with the changes and different places and we always have food for thought for the type of lifestyle we have chosen for ourselves over these last few months. With this brief flirt again with “reality” and catching up with family and friends in the middle of our WWOOFing project we have discovered that while we feel less and less hippy -certainly in comparison to some of the true blue – purple? (what colour are they I wonder) hippies that we have met, we seem to be simultaneously making our friends and family think we are more hippy – strange world!
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