More good waves ,6ft and perfect.3 days of it at Capbreton with very few surfers, the best was sat urday morning 6 of us(only 1 french guy, rest were poms and aussies) pumping barrels that didnt have a drop of water out of place.Cold but well worth it.Its raining again !!!The weather here is enough to send a person silly.Like everywhere its unusual and everyone has had enough.

Still helping Lolas school with their swimming lessons once a week.Lots of fun with the french kids.Its good for my french as the kids throw it all at me!!!!

Received the results and certificate from my french test.I have a A1.1 level in french and passed with 99.5 per cent!!!It shows that it must have been easy!!

Spoke with Weiry a coupla times on his wedding day.So disappointed I cuoldnt make it.Best wishes to him and Mandy.And happy 50th you old bastard;Weve celebrated many birthdays together and its a shame to miss this one.

Woow, more bad weather with an incredible storm with winds of up to 170 kmh.We woke about 4am to amazingly strong winds that were shaking the house.Ive never encountered anything like it before.We rose after all sleeping together to see trees and power lines down everywhere we looked and still didnt want to venture outside as the wind was still pumping with gusts up to 100 ks.It was cold as we'd lost power and had no heating.We had a power line down in our driveway with bare wires and was about 50 mm thick-scary stuff.I rode down to our house to see we were quite lucky to have only lost one small panel-that i'd finished the day before.It could have been worse.It rained and blew for the next 5 -6 days.I sent Co and Lola to Biarritz for a coupla days coz all we had was an open fire and candles to live with ;Rob lent us his generator which gave us enough power for a coupla liights and tv.Small luxury but much appreciated.4 people were killed locally and 1.2 million homes without power.7 days later we had power back,what an experience!!2 weeks later and there are still many people without power.They must be going crazy.Winter in France without power is hard.Everywhere we go there are trees down in huge numbers.At least firewood will be cheap next year!