24th October

A home day today.

I had two parcels to post- one to Scotland and one to England. I’d bought brown paper at the supermarket the other day so I’d wrapped them, as I would in England, and set off to the post office. In my best French I explained that I wanted to send the parcels to the UK please. But the lady said I couldn’t. It seems in France you can’t wrap things in brown paper to post them. You have to buy the proper packaging and for one of the gifts I had to fill in a customs form too. I can’t say exactly what the things were at this point because the people they are for will (I hope!) be reading this. But suffice to say, the package that needed the customs form may well be seen to be highly suspect! I’ll explain all in a week or so. So I bought the packaging (4 euros) and brought my things home to rewrap!

Whilst I was out I went for a wander around the town. The river, le Loir (no e) flows right alongside the main shopping street in Vendôme and a man was just stood there fishing- and no one battered an eyelid! Ha! See what I did there?! That’s straight out of the David Kelly joke book ! 🙂

I sent an email to a dance school in Blois today to ask for details about their classes. I need to dance! I checked it all over, sent it and then realised there were two glaring grammatical errors in it. So maybe I won’t hear back!

I’ve also booked myself a French lesson in Tours at the beginning of November. Curiously all the sessions online were from 10pm until 1am. I emailed the guy who does the classes thinking that there had been a mistake with the times. But no, that is the time of the lessons! Bit late for me, I felt, to be travelling back home on my own. A bit odd too to be so late at night?! Anyway I’m going at 2 in the afternoon now. He created a session specially, which was kind, so I’ll let you know how it goes.

A little French language thought I had. The word for a hook is « un crochet ». So I’m guessing that’s why we call crochet crochet- because of the hook that forms the pattern?

Bonne nuit 🙂