We spent last week back in Blighty; the traffic on the M1 was reminder enough of why we left, if a reminder were needed. We bought a French registered, left hand drive car, a Peugeot Partner, while we were in London; more of a van-with-windows, really. Rather less luxurious than the C5, but comfortable enough and it seems to go OK. I thought Nick and Kieran may come to blows over who would drive it back to Yorkshire, but Nick conceded and was finally allowed to have a go on the journey back to France.

During our stay, we met the people who are buying our house in Grey St; a lovely young couple who, I hope, will be very happy there. Their status as really nice people with impeccable taste improved even further in my opinion when they told us that one of the features that decided them to buy our house was the stained glass window in the hall, which took me 10 years to build!

Today was spent on the after-the-hols clear-up, but we did allow ourselves an outing with the cycle club this afternoon. I explained that, after 2 years off the bike, I wasn’t up to doing the whole ride, so they promised to ride at a very gentle pace till I turned back. I struggled to keep up for all of 9 miles (pathetic!) and it wasn’t till we’d left the rest of them that I learnt that the guy who took the lead today is an ex-Tour de France rider! (made me feel slightly less pathetic):-)