Bonjour

So yesterday was mad! I dropped James off at school so he could go to Aspen skiing and then went home to pack so we could go to France. We left home at 8.00 p.m. and caught the 11.45 p.m. ferry from Portsmouth to Caen. We got into Caen at 7.30 French time (6.30 in the UK). We had a fantastic drive down to our cottage. It’s been a beautiful day, blue sky, sunshine and as always in France hardly a car on the road! It takes about 4 hours from Caen to Loge Gaor. If you’re looking for us on a map or Google we are just north of Pont Aven on the south coast of Brittany between the towns of Scaer and Bannalec. We had lunch out and then spent the afternoon toasting our toes next to the stove and playing Monopoly with Carys.

It’s great to be here, we’ve always loved this part of France and have had firstly the mobile home and now the cottage for 6 years. We relax the moment we arrive; we are really hoping we’ll manage loads more breaks here and that health won’t hinder us too much over the summer. We don’t do much apart from fires, tv and walks on the beach. Just the job! We were a little worried because we had had some work done on the roof and were concerned as always that it might not have been done (or left half done). No probs, all finished; we take it all back!

My health continues to be remarkably good, no tiredness, no sickness and I’m eating normally(ish) even managing pain-au-chocolate and baguette! Four weeks ago I was struggling with liquids. Real progress; the tumour must be shrinking: YES!!

I’ll try and blog each night. Thank-you so much for your prayer support – just after my first chemo we were concerned we might not make it – it means the world to us to be here; it’s our haven and we love it so much.

God bless. Hope you had great weekends.

Luv

Dave