welcome gemma

hey , great to have you on board gemma! how d'ya get to rick stein's too? lucky you! i cannot tell you what an angel you are to have recorded er for me. fancy you remembering that strange tic of mine! anyway you have made my provencal week! (where it is raining and cold actually and er would just be bliss) - send to our house: porte gerin , 84410 crillon le brave, france. so when are you coming for a working week at our new house? offers open to all: obligatory shutter scraping/lime washing but free plonk! julian and i talking about how lovely it will be to be able to put up children/grandchildren (not ours unfortunately, but all yours!)/half sisters etc in the future (after shutters have been scraped!) anyway, here we are, very excited about oct 13th and esp. cos it looks like i can come, atleast till about 3pm, though i can't get too pissed, unfortunately. julian is upstairs playing and singing loudly along to carole king. i think i better rescue him, poor love. all love to y'all. ruthxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx