remarkable xmas

 Started the day, alarmingly, atop of a wall - we'd been making the last of the christmas deliveries and erm, don't really know what happened. Car went forwards instead of back. We ended up wedged across a track with a wall about to collapse under the font of the car.

Knocked on the door of the nearest house and disturbed a Frenchman in his pyjamas... he invited us in and there was his partner, mercifully already dressed. They'd clearly been enjoying a quiet morning together.

Incredibly, they were kind and welcoming.

After due deliberation Stephan drove his car out of the front, round Montazels and up the back of the track: drove up another driveway with a length of rope: anchored it to ours, while Katerine levered the car from the front with a big pointed length of tree. The car retreated, a large rock fell, but no-one was hurt and our new friends retained their good humour throughout.

The mist lifted and the sun shone...

Gus

Onwards then to our scheduled day at Chateau Rushton, where the pre-lunch drinks happened in a slightly too-hot garden ...

Jean-Christophe and Kim

Bob getting de-shocked

Clare doing the work

 John and Clare did the full number and we enjoyed it, massively and noisily and with joy :)

Chris, Clare, Bob

Jean-Christophe and Kim

Chris and pudding

Hope that you had a happy Christmas!


Back to dieting and clean living for us though not necessarily today - soon. Perhaps.