We Have a New Baby!

The time has come to announce the arrival of the latest Larcombe!! "Rosie". She is five years old and has lived all her life in France. For the last few years she has lived with an English family near Vire. We will take loads of photos tomorrow but here are a couple to keep you all going ........

The Fortnight Continues ...........

Well, poor Tom is just about alive still, after working so hard, and my mum has done so much washing up I am surprised there is any left. We have also built a fence around a field, built a new gate, shifted tons of rocks, rebuilt a soakaway, cleared away tons of cut grass ..........

The Start of the Holidays

Well, we are already at two weeks Winter holiday!! How did that part of the term go that quick?

My mum and Tom arrived on Saturday with Andrew and we have not stopped since. Tom has not worked so hard in years, but I am pleased to say he is still smiling! The fence in the bottom field is almost complete, so we will be able to have our first animals quite soon. Tom has also been instructed in preparing logs and bringing them into the kitchen. He is an excellent house guest.

For those of you who know her, my mum has been cleaning! No surprises there then! She is behaving herself though and enjoying spending lots of time with the grandchildren!

Take care and speak soon. xx

We are nearly there .....

Well, the kids and I have just about managed to last the first two weeks without Andrew. I cant say it has been all great but we have had some good moments.

Kirsty has now had her second riding lesson and there were no more tears. She is celebrating her birthday at school today with her friends and teacher. It is also a dress up day for Mardi Gras as well, so a good day should be had by all.

Josh is off to the cinema with his class this morning, in French of course. We will find out at lunch what it was about, or not!!!!

We have also made some new friends in the past two weeks. Vicky, an English lady who lives about ten minutes away in Montchauvet and Laurence and her two children Aurelie and Dorian, who live in the farm down the road. Dorian is always talking about Kirsty at home, the new English girl!! Maybe, a blossoming romance!! Aurelie is in Joshs class but is only just seven, she is in CP at the moment. Both are lovely and good new friends.

Anyway, take care all and here are a couple more photos to keep you going. x

The Beach

Well, today we were really brave and we went to the beach. I think we went the long way there as it took us about 50 minutes but we came home much quicker thanks to me working out where home was on the satnav!!

We had a great time. The cafe was the first stop for some light refreshment as it was lunchtime when we arrived and then to the waves, the sand, the stones and ....

The weather is fabulous again today, 15 degrees, so the beach, although windy, was lovely. The ice creams and the Grand Marnier crepes were quite nice too!!

We only have six more sleeps until Andrew comes back with Grandma Nett and Tom, so this week will be spent cleaning and tidying in preparation.

Love to all and speak soon. xx

Kirsty Party and Electrics!!

Well, Kirstys party went quite well!! She had two guests turn up, one of whom was too scared to stay so her sister stayed instead!! Josh had a buddy for the afternoon too, another whirlwind!! The party went well and even Peter enjoyed himself!!

Andrew left for England last Sunday after the party and by Tuesday we had lost half of our electrics!! Typical!! Well, I managed to call out EDF in my best French and we seem to have full power restored again. Not holding my breath though.

We have also had our first riding lesson for Kirsty. She rode a lovely skewbald pony called Darling. He was great. Roll on next week. Josh has decided that he is going too, so after the holidays we get rid of two children for nearly two hours on a Tuesday night. Hurray. Anyway enough for now.

Love to all, take care.