What a crazy day!!!

La rentrée scolaire - I am glad it's just once a year!

8h30 - Catrin starts in one part of Pessac
9h15 - Gwilym starts elsewhere in Pessac (actually quite nice - we had coffee in a café!)

11h45 - Catrin's lunchbreak
12h00 - Gwilym's lunchbreak

13h45 - Catrin back to school
14h45 - Gwilym back to school

15h30 - Gwilym finishes school
16h45 - Catrin finishes school

Meantime at 16h00 I get a call asking if I am free to help the pastor move some furniture. Sadly I was in a supermarket in Pessac buying bottled water while waiting for Catrin to finish school!

And at 17h00 some prospective tenants were coming to see the house!

Thankfully, from tomorrow Gwilym is on his normal timetable, and he starts just before Catrin at 8h25 every day except Wednesday and Friday, when he starts at 8h00.

He finishes every day at 16h30, just before Catrin, and I think it will all work out fine.

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Alan said…
The prospective tenants didn't turn up! So we spent a happy hour sitting in the front garden in the shade chatting with the landlord and landlady. I like them so much. We'll have to keep in touch once we've moved. We can get them over for a meal perhaps.
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