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I go on a few Facebook groups for WWII then/now pictures. I think one of them is DDay then/Now or something like that. Another one I like is Tom Marshall, who colourises old WWI era photos. It completely transforms the images. I guess it's a bit morbid looking at these pictures, but it does bring home to me the bravery of the soldiers and the futility of war!

Our mince pies are a bit light on the alcohol, but our Christmas cake is likely to need a flammable item sticker on it!

Most supermarkets here have some British stuff in their foreign food aisles, but it's normally limited to extremely expensive jars of marmite and McVities biscuits!

No, mate, but we make our own mince pies and Christmas cake. There's a few online places that do deliveries of brit food stuffs, mainly from the Republic of Ireland so they have less red tape to deal with.

Got another calendar today! There's a weird tradition here that the firemen, bin men, postie, etc come round on the run up to Christmas for their tips, but they're not allowed to just accept money. So you "buy" a calendar from them for whatever you think appropriate. I don't know what the rules are, but the French are very creative in finding ways around them! Anyway, anyone want to buy a calendar?

They're also badged as Fiat over here too!

Yeah, it Jake LaMotta, I just looked it up.

Wasn't the film Raging Bull about him?

Monsoon season over here at the moment! Hardly been out of the house this week. Hopefully the weekend won't be too bad and we can get out for a while. Forecast doesn't look to bad at the moment.

Ordered a heated towel rail for our bog a couple of weeks ago. Company sent an email to say it's been shipped and gave the tracking link. When it hadn't turned up after a week I looked at the tracking link and the delivery company show it as still with the supplier. I emailed the supplier to ask them to investigate........no reply! Emailed them again to investigate........still no reply! Because there's so many scammers around I always pay by PayPal, so I'll give them until the end of the week and if I don't hear from them I'll get onto PayPal to get my money back. Meanwhile, it's bloody freezing in the bog at the moment! One thing I have learned since being here is that customer service can be extremely sketchy! Either brilliant or complete shit. There seems to be no in-between!

Looks great. Have a safe journey.

If her flight went anything like some others I know that have flown back to the UK over the past couple of days she'll be having a nice kip on an airport floor somewhere!

We're here for Christmas day, but hopefully flying to the UK on Boxing day to visit family for a couple of days.........all depending on strikes etc.

The new environmentally friendly bidets need a little refining.....!