We put up the roof frame last week with murf and howey.They willcome back this week to get the tiles on.I'll paint as much as i can before they come back .Easter next week,cant believe how tme flies!!!

Yahooo! Winter is finally over!It was a long cold winter.Karl said it was the worst he'd seen in The 17 years hes been here.But all the same i had some sensational waves that were world class.I have decided to try to keep some of the existing internal wall with the hand made bricks as a feature,it should come up well.I'm finally ready for the roof and expect delivery of all the roof items on tuesday,it should be tiled by the end of the following week.Lola has more school holidays coming up,it seems like shes never at school.Corinne goes to Paris next week for 3 days to try and pass a concours for here work status,and then she starts a maternity leave replacement for a few months.The money will be handy.Ireally wanted to be in Australia in April but with all the winter weather hold ups i cant leave here until we can move in here.Hopefully June or July

Heres some shots of Lola feeding the animals at the farm about 150 metres down the road.This is Lolas favorite place with lots of cheeky goats ,cows ,geese and a pair of donkeys and their baby.We take carrots and bread down there and its always a bit of fun.A beautiful spot with a small lake and creek in a pretty little valley.

The house is moving along well and we hope to get the roof on in 2-3 weeks(weather permitting).The weather is changing and not so cold but we keep getting the odd day of rain.No special days of surfing lately but it cuold be good later this week

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!

Well the snow has gone and our pipes have thawed and we hagain have hot water.Lola loved playing in the snowand had a ball doing so.We have beautiful weather ,sunny clear ,but still cold, about 7-9 degrees tops.

There were more good waves on the weekend 4-5 ft Left/right peaks.There was still snow on the beach but it wasnt too cold in the water with about 12 degree water temp

Its back to work but I have to wait till midmorning for the blocks to thaw.

BRRRRRR,oh so cold. -6 deg this morning.It snowed here yesterday.We had about 50mm in 4hrs.The roads are too icy to drive anywhere.I had to bring some firewood back from the other house by barrow coz i couldnt drive,Lola cant go to school, the roads are too dangerous to drive on.Lola is having a ball with her first encounter with snow,ooohh so happy!!!I cant lay bricks coz they are frozen.The next coupla days will be a little warmer(I hope)