Christmas and New Year have been celebrated in a quiet way due to a very nasty bug going around that got us all, one after the other. I am recovering now.
It's been very cold at night, frost in the hollows. I feel blessed to have a good stove and a stack of firewood.
I am not a very political person and never keep up with the 'news' but I wonder if this 'Brexit' thing will happen and if so, how does it affect us emigrants. I don't want to lose my ties to the old country (which for me is Scotland, not England). I guess we shall find out in the next few months.
New people continue to find their way to our neck of the woods. Young people with children and dreams. I understand their wish for the good life. This is a good place to have a family and grow your own food, etc. I am curious to see how their new energy and input will affect the area. There are more activities, like yoga, pilates, working with modeling clay, zumba. My daughter has started a small play group where children all with different mother tongues come together and play in the sand pit. Rather special. And the kindergarten where my middle grand daughter goes is also multi-lingual. She speaks German with her best friend!
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Hi Veronica and Happy belated New Year to you! You could come to Normandy for damp days and sometimes here we actually do think we are back in Scotland. At the moment we have a perpetual grey/white sky which makes me glad we celebrate old Christmastide and will still have all our evergreens and lights and decorations until Candlemas or Imbolc. Your blue skies look wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anything about Brexit, to me it is just another distraction. People will get on with their lives and fall out or in with each other, whatever happens. As long as we are doing good where we are and improving the land and lovingly restoring buildings, holding them in trust for the next generations, being creative and harming no one with our presence, I can't see we will be unwelcome. All the very best from the baie de Mont Saint Michel, Sue