Today it has been mostly…spitting. Miserable weather or what we call over here ‘mauvais temps’. A perfect ambiance then for the equally miserable affairs of the day which included this afternoon an hour and a half at the accountant’s going over our end of year books, item by endless item, and the news that we can be expecting a retrospective cotisation bill in December, of 22 000€. That’s in addition to the normal ones which come in every month and trimester. As half of that is an estimation based on this year’s earnings it could potentially be halved, if the accountant fights the bureaucrats and wins, but still not great news whichever way it’s looked at just before Christmas.

We stopped off at home for a cup of fortifying tea before going off to see Louis’s teacher but unfortunately didn’t have time to drink it. Had we previewed the half an hour talk in which he told us about our son’s contrary nature then we would have made the time and shaved 10 minutes off the speech….I’m joking obviously, it’s nice of him to bother to take the time - but being French what could have been said in 2 minutes took 10 times that in endless repetition. Matt then went off to Gouhaut to lose himself in work whilst I came back and played table tennis with Louis, which I thought was a casual approach to trying to get to the bottom of his attitude problem.
‘Why are you so contrary with you teacher Louis?’, I asked whilst doing a killer spin serve.
‘I’m not’, he answer smashing it back quite easily to skitter off irretrievably into a holy bush. I rest my case.

I’ve just been on Youtube with the kids when we happened upon this …the cheese meister himself. Have I made it up or was Claudia Schiffer really romantically involved with this man?