13th December 2006

Here is a first glimpse of what Alex and I hope to be our new home and chalet just outside the ski resort of Les Deux Alpes. As seems to have been the case since we started down this road nothing is going to plan. We were supposed to be in the Chalet by the middle of October, but thanks to some particularly inefficient banks and outrageously late decisions form the Mayor's office we're still waiting. In fact as of this Saturday we will have advertised, negotiated and sold our flat in less time than it's taken a small board of people to put their signature to a document that lets us run the place as a legitimate business. Faced by the approaching reality of homelessness, we have taken the opportunity to spend Christmas with friends and family in the UK. Hopefully some better luck in the new year. Will