Carrying on with Life

26.6.14:

Went with Martine to Sylvie's salon over the border to get our hair done while Claudette went to the museum. Martine had a pedicure and foot spa while sitting in a massage chair as well. On coming back to the village, I invited them to the bar for an apéritif and were joined by Christian.  There was Aberdeen Angus steak on the restaurant's menu and we couldn't resist. Christian couldn't finish his so rather than leave it, it came home with us in a serviette. In the evening, he managed to go over to the Mairie for a meeting but I think it was the same as when he's gone out to the bar 'the light's on but no one's home".
Weather:
27 deg some rain, sun, cloud

25.6.14:
Christian got his tests results and despite the cardio fiddling with his medication, the thyroid is getting worse rather than better. 
Weather:
26°

24.6.14:

Had coffee at the bar with Daniel, a Frenchman who has lived in South Africa for many years and is working as an estate agent. He has moved from the Var to farther up our valley  As he's not been here long, Flo (one of the opposition and who a few years ago I worked with to develop the village online forum) thought that the Association might be a good connection for him. He seemed interested and said he'd come to the tapas evening at the end of the week. It was a bit like selling ice cream to Eskimos as I extolled the merits of the village in comparison to where he's currently living. For someone selling houses in the area, he doesn't know much about it whatever his publicity blurb says!
Christian gave the weekly meeting at the Mairie a miss but Jean-Jacques came for a bite to eat afterwards. Michel who had been invited but had said that he couldn't come, turned up anyway to see how Christian was and stayed to share what we had on the table!
Weather:

28°,  thunder lightening some heavy rain 

23.6.14: 

Christian took the GP's letter to the cardio's office as soon as it was open and on reading it seeing how bloated he was, blood and urine tests were ordered up. At last some action. Meanwhile, I went shopping over the border with Josephine and came back to her place where we were joined by Christian and Michel for lunch. While there, Michel received the news that Sylvie's daughter, Alison had had a baby girl. With less pressing things to deal ith we stayed on for a wee snooze after which we refreshed our feet in the cooling waters of their pool.
Christian didn't manage down to the recreation ground in the evening for the fireworks of the "Fête de St Jean" marking the beginning of summer but I was there to represet our commitment to village life. Maggie appeared at one point looking for a black lab who had sped off from the house thinking that the fireworks were a signal that a shoot had started! Afterwards I joined Terry and Anne for an al fresco coffee in the bar.
Headlines:
700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn when the Scots sent "proud Edward's army home again to think again". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPaJhlIIYjM

Weather:
26 deg cloud thunder some rain burt dry in the evening

22.6.14:
Cooked lamb shanks Morrocan style for lunch. Sorry, can't remember where I found the recipe. You'll just hve to take my word for it that they were delicious!
Weather:
26°,  clouding over in the afternoon
Headlines:
The situation in Iraq/Syria becomes ever more politically complicated and violent.