The Usual Abnormal Service will be Resumed as Soon as Possible

Blogging has rather come to a stop in the last few weeks. We left Sicily about a month ago and, stopping over to enjoy some of the delights of Florence (salacious remarks resisted with difficulty but success), we arrived at a site just outside Narbonne in South West France two weeks ago today. Since then we have been looking for and at property. We had a pretty good idea of what we wanted and where, and now have an ugly bad idea of what our investments and shrinking currency are worth. We have been trying to pull the two ideas closer together and now have one or two candidates under consideration. We leave for Spain next weekend, where we are spending Christmas and the New Year, before going on to Portugal from where we shall return to France some time in January when, hopefully, our settlement plans will have some shape. We are going to UK in February to see friends, family, doctors, pub landlords etc. and hope to be in our new home in the Spring. I wonder......