Hello to you all from a much chillier petit château. My posts have become a little adhoc for various reasons lately. Days speed by and we are often diverted by the latest challenge here at our renovation project. What a project it is. We moved into a house that was absolutely liveable in, with running water, electricity and a couple of woodburners, as well as an amazing swimming pool. The décor wasn’t too awful and we had plans aplenty! But as is the case for everyone, life changes and plans have to change accordingly and small renovation jobs have a habit of surprising you with the enormity of the tiny…

Hello to you all How was your week? Did you have a look at the Action for Happiness calendar for October? (see post Optimistic in October). We are trying to follow it each day this month – so far so good. Max and I started the week with renewed enthusiasm, restructuring our days, getting some work done and aiming to make inroads into the house projects and garden work. But, of course, those little unexpected things cropped up! What a surprise. None of them are major, more irksome than huge dramas and in the bigger picture totally unimportant, however hopefully a source of amusement. Expect the unexpected should perhaps be…