Une nouvelle décennie

Loire Atlantique welcomes in 2010

Croisons les doigts, ce sera meilleur que le précédent. Il allait être une période assez calme au cours de la période de Noël chez nous, my younger son Mish arrived from Jeddah on the 15th and even having allowed himself 2 hours to get from Charles de Gaule Airport to Montparnasse, still missed his train thanks to a taxi driver who insisted he could navigate the Parisian rush hour in time.    Yeah right, it’ll be the metro next time.   After the short flurry of snow and ice, we decided that as the best of our friends will be away or with their own families at Christmas we would have an ‘alternate’ celebration and invited them to a Winter Solstice dinner.   

I decided to do a curry night as our French friends don’t often have the opportunity of eating Indian food and our English ones enjoy it as much as we do – a real winter warmer.   Everyone had a lovely time and it gave us a nice start to the seasonal festive spirit.   

On the 23rd I finally went to see a specialist for my ‘sacro-illiac’ pain only to be told after a thorough examination and x-rays that it wasn’t anything to do with the S-I, it was a nerve trapped in the last 2 veribrae.  This of course means that the last 2 months being painfully manipulated was a complete waste of time and money.  Great!   Still it is my own fault for not going to the spacialist earlier, I did have an appointment on 6 Nov which I cancelled as I believed the Osteopath in the UK and thought it was getting better.   Now I have a 10 day course of Steroids and a back support belt to wear and I can feel the difference already. 

We had a lovely Christmas day with other English friends, we brought the starters, cheeses and deserts – they did the turkey and trimmings so nobody was too stressed out to enjoy the day.  A walk in the afternoon sunshine finished it off beautifully all the better for being able to walk without pain. 

My older son Maz arrived on the 28th from the UK and then we had just a couple of days all together before Mish had to fly back to Jeddah on the 30th.   The New Year was a very low key event as neither of the ‘drivers’ wanted to go anywhere and be tea total and I have night blindness so even sober we’d have probably ended up in the ditch with me behind the wheel.    Well, that’s another Christmas over, I hope anyone reading this had a great time and we wish you the very best of everything in 2010.

We wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2010