Skiing in La Tania from 19th-26th January with the girls. Great snow, great fun. Not sure if you can use the adjective "great" about the technique but we loved it!
Pic Noir looking to Meribel - Red Run to La Tania
Olympic Ski Jump at Le Praz - Ballon over Courchevel
Terrible Green Gluwein - Top of Pic Noir chair
Meribel in the sunshine - La Tania in January
Les Girls on the Meribel side
We arrived on Monday after a great weeks skiing. Only photos are on my phone as the camera charger has been packed in the sea frieght and is currently somewhere in the Indian Ocean (or on it, I hope) and the phone cable to transfer the photos to the internet is also in the sea freight - are you beginning to see a pattern here....! Anyway - photos will be loaded here as and when possible! (photos finally added 10/2/08)
So arrived Monday, with Howard feeling poorly so we only managed to the shops for milk and to the quarantine place to see that the cats were OK (which they are of course). Tuesday Howard off to work and me thinking "oh heck what do I do now?" However 2 days later I'm feeling much better. Internet to keep in touch with everybody back home and the process of getting things sorted here has helped a great deal.
At this moment I'm sitting at the new table that was delivered today, along with the sideboard and TV cabinet - photos to follow. Actually there is a bit of damage on the furnture so I refused to pay the driver as I should have, but actually it is all looking good. However the driver didn't rate it - he said "cheap, cheap" basically meaning we deserved to get damage on such rubbish furniture. However =, I really like it - it is the only vaguely western furniture I could find. There was plenty of heavy Chinese Rosewood or lots of teak imported from Indonesia, which is what I think he valued more. But I happy that the ubiqutous rubber wood we bought comes from a managed resource and no rain forest was destroyed in the harvesting of it. So there, driver man! (And actually it was all pretty resonable!)
Anyway at last our house is looking a bit more that just an empty shell. The telecoms man also came to solve my phone problems – couldn’t hear or be heard on the house phone. The water man came to have me sign up for a water chiller (to save the dozens of plastic bottles we go through otherwise) and finally a lady selling orchids turned up at the door so I have an orchid display on my new table for the princely sum of 6.5 euros. And a maid interviewed and employed starting tomorrow. So there we are.
And finally and most importantly it is Howards birthday. And where is he? In a teleconference with Houstin and the Hague. This seems to be an increasing problem - global office equaling early mornings for Houstin and late nights for us. So in prepartion Howard came out of the office early, we went for a long walk along the beach, had tea at the boat club before coming back here. Once he's finshed we'll have a drink and a chat to Katy and Claire. We'll go for a nice meal on Saturday to celebrate instead.
