This weekend was the weekend of my daughter's sixth birthday and we had the obligatory bithrday party on Saturday afternoon, she was actually six on Friday. It is one thing looking after ten 6 year olds in your own language but trying to control 10 six year olds in a foreign language, at least for me, was hard work, languages do not come naturally to me, even English at times deserts me. Luckily for me my wife is an excellent French speaker and managed to keep control for the three hours of the party, during which the children played all sorts of old fashioned games, some of which I had never heard of. Musical chairs and musical statues, and blind mans buff were easy enough to understand but we had other games which I really did not know, such as a game with sweets in six bowls and a dice and something different happens on each number of the dice, but as they say you learn something new everyday.

I will be up at 4:00am Monday morning to drive back to the UK so it will be early to bed after a day of chopping logs for the fire, and for an autumn weekend the weather has not been bad, cloudy but not cold and after lunchtime on Saturday the rain went away.

Enough rambling from me for now...

Cheers

FC