We've just come back from a couple of weeks in France, where our tiny deux-piéce in Cotes d'Armor had sat unattended for the last four months.  We were greeted by  a waist-high lawn and giant daisies hiding the flower bed - and plaster hanging off the front of the house (pictures on Facebook!)   However we soon got everything back into shape despite the rain and high winds, and were able to take a day out to check on our 'Cottage Titania Panoramic' near Quimper and enjoy the facilities of the 4* l'Orangerie de Lanniron, including the laundry in a barn...  Carolyn's friend Joy (Alliance Francais - Paris 1966) visited for a day but the scattered Bahá'í friends we usually visit were all away, which left us free to make the very long drive to Grigny, a leafy, multi-cultural suberb of Paris to see our dear 'Cyprus' Camerounian friend Clovis and meet his wife Nathalie and baby David and some of their friends, returning directly to Le Havre and home - where we were confronted with yet another flower meadow...

Since writing this we've had to let the lovely mobile home go as the site fees were very high and there are many other places we can watch the rain in a forest - there was a beautiful rainbow as we loaded up for the last time...