I am late with blogging this week, but luckily its been a quiet one so this shouldn’t take long. After multiple big sleeps, we’re finally fully caught up after all the wedding madness, and have been working away on catching up with work too. It was looking like Matt would soon run out of things to do, but a few bits and bobs have cropped up that should keep him occupied for a while longer after all.
For me I now have a list of eight websites in the queue. Mercifully several are for friends and are not urgent, or I’d be feeling the pressure. As it is, one of them is giving me a headache this week. It’s for a local building company that seems to be suffering delusions of grandueur. From the moment they made contact back at the end of august, I knew they were going to be trouble and I am not at all happy to have been vindicated about this. After fobbing them off until after the wedding, they were on top of my to-do list last week. By Thursday, I had a design that, for me, met their brief, and one I was pleased with. They wrote back on Sunday evening to express their displeasure at my work and since then I’ve been in a funk about it, and feel unable to come up with an alternate design. Luckily, awkward clients like this are rare, or I’d soon be exploring an alternate career.
As well as returning to work, Matt’s been resuming his role as President of Milhac Loisirs lately. He’s had several meetings to get their next few events firmed up. This includes the Soirée Britannique next month – the first one to take place without us as the musical entertainment. Instead, he’s hired the excellent and highly camp DJ who provided the entertainment at an event last year to come and get all the oldies dancing.
We had a mostly quiet weekend, with no plans on Friday or sunday. On saturday, we had Josiane & Cammi over for dinner, for what we realised was the first time in several years. They own a little yappie type dog they don’t like leaving at home, so it’s only reluctantly that they accept dinner invites, and when they do come, they leave their poor dog in their car all evening. They were due to be joined by Bryan and Carol but the former has been unwell for several weeks with some sort of gastric issue, so only Carol came in the end. The two of them are returning to the UK on Saturday for the winter. Rather reluctantly in Carol’s case, it must be said.
Josiane and Cammi were invited to our wedding, along with their daughter Laetti, but they couldn’t make it. Laeitti had cancer about 4 years ago, was operated on, had chemo and recovered. This year a routine check-up found it had returned and had spread. Their family has had a really rotten 2017, compounded by the death of Josiane’s father too. Laetti lives in Belgium and had her surgery booked in for late September, so Jo & Cammi missed the wedding to be with her for that. Her operation didn’t go entirely smoothly, but she’s now recovering well, and is about to embark on a mammoth 18 weeks of chemo.
Back to the evening itself, both Jo & Cammi were on really good form, especially all things considered. It was a pleasure to spend some time with them again. Carol mostly seemed to hold her own on the language front too as Jo & Cammi’s english is largely non-existent. Matt uses this blog to remind himself what he cooked for whom, so here goes: we had italian antipasto to start, followed by lemon turkey escalope and quinoa. Dessert was brownies and ice cream. There you go, poppet.
Right, I think that’s all the news I have to impart. It’s grey and dreary out, but if the forecast holds true, we’re due a week of warm sunny days to make up for it. This weekend we’re going to M&M’s for the traditional double-birthday celebration of Matt & Manu. Read all about that here soon.