Prosperity

Yesterdays market was sunny and fun if under resourced.... keep hearing travellers tales of ghastly weather everywhere else, whilst we persist in being a safe haven. 

Here's Claudine at le Pont this morning where we did a speed gossip session :)

Some thing I've been meaning to share that may be useful to fellow denizens... we have a French bank account, of course. Had it for nearly thirty years but it can still surprise us. Was using it as a holding pen for some dosh that had come in, prior to the appointment with an actual money advisor, and by chance looked at it a couple of weekends ago to discover that a very large sum had gone missing.  Panic!!

We are not money savvy people. I rang the banks emergency number and after a lot of faffing about was told that I had authorised the moving of said dosh; nope, I'm sure I would have remembered. Man-on-phone said go talk to the bank when open. That was effectively two days away so me and himself spent an unhappy weekend wondering what to do, if anything, and what terrible event had occurred that I'd authorised and forgotten.

Doorstepped them on the Monday. Turns out that there is an automatic process that moves money into a savings account, in your name but without telling you. The bank was very sympathetic. Ha.