Congratulations to the Von Merrows

Well done Pete and family and a what a lovely photo of the gang. Even Amy is is playing continuo. I am sure that your concert was received well - we still talk about our efforts to accompany you in Orapa.
What are your plans for the car - you could do with a larger van/people carrier. Reg in the bungalow opposite was selling his son-in-law's H- reg Landrover Discovery for £2800 and I thought of you. Even Steve was interested. It has now been sold, but what the final figure was, I do not know. I think you need a l/h drive if you intend to stay on the Continent.
At the moment the air fares Southampton/Alicante are quite high and it would cost nearly £200 for us to fly return, but even that is not impossible.
Mum is still in some discomfort, but she was warned that it would take a couple of weeks before everything settled back in place. She is impatient for everything to be right again, poor love. Steve has been fixing up a grab rail to assist her in getting out of the bath - he has also made it easier to turn on the taps at the kitchen sink and cleared the algae from the decking next to the house, to make it less slippier. I will be re-painting that today.
Did you see Steve's painting of a sailboat? He has loaned it to us and at the moment it is hanging over the stair well. Looks great and even he is pleased with his painting. We are so lucky with all our artistic family.
We hope you are all interested in Steve's plans for next July. He will be viewing the accommodtion when he visits Provence next month, to spend some time with Julian, and report back.
We now have an Indian takeaway, a Chinese one next door and a fish & chip shop next to that so we will not be going hungry. I am planning to sample the Chinese t/a today. LOL Dad