seeing as it has been a week since the last post...

...and kerry allen has a lot of catching up to do, here is some more light reading. when i originally started writing this it was 16h30 and i had half an hour to spare. then amélie woke up and i got roped into working half an hour early as we were going out for dinner for my birthday, which is today.

i am now a domestic goddess. i have successfully made: jam, pistou and mashed potatoes. any other form of domesticity is going slowly. but i think home made jam is quite high on the scale of domestic deity!

i am no longer going to update on amélie's speech, as it is coming on leaps and bounds. she even said tartine today, she has made impressive progress (even since last week!)

i went with olivier and his brother and his brother's kids (they have just moved down here from lyon) and the kids to a beautiful lake, lac de sainte croix, which is about an hour and a half away. except it took longer because of the vomming incidents, and no it wasn't me. it was very windy (at the lake, not the vomit).

visited also frejus and nice. beach only at frejus but that was pleasant. and nice was much better than the last time i went (even though it was only for one night on a sunday night and we were miles away from the centre/beach) - we visited the famous promenade des anglais, the old town (along with Fennochio's - 100 different flavours of ice cream), the castle, the port and the beach! busy times!

not much else has been occurring, although i have set an official date for my departure from here! the 5th september it is (although maybe the 6th) as i have a meeting to be at on the 9th and may need a place to live.