Just another day

Today is a beautiful day here in France, the sun is shining and its warm, the sky is clear blue and it finally feels like Summer is on the way after a long, dark, wet Winter. Another afternoon in the garden and we will feel we are making progress with the borders and flower beds. The trees are covered in blossom, and the shrubs are certainly well on their way. The Peonies are in bud ready to burst into their beautiful colours of various reds and pinks.

Life at the moment for us both due to trying to sell and return to England is generally very boring, particularly around this time of year when it is so quiet. We will be pleased when May arrives and the French General Election is over and things in France have settled down, hopefully the house market will then pick up, and we will have some interesting news to report.

The animals are booked into the Vets tomorrow for their blood tests for Rabies after their booster 10 days ago. We are quite confident they cannot have this disease as they were vaccinated in England before we arrived, but Defra says this is required before we can return them to the U.K. so its something we have to pay out for and do. The cost for this test works out at 450 Euros for the five of them. Certainly not cheap to have pets nowadays.

Our Poppy, a blue/cream Persian we are quite worried about, she is now nearly 17 years old, and looks the worst for wear, we are sure she is deaf, and sometimes she gets quite confused as to where she is and where she wants to go. The Vet did a blood test on her last time we went to check her organs etc. and said she was fine, heart was good and kidneys were ok. So we shall plod with her and hope she makes it through the six month period and the journey.