Festive greetings!

A very Merry Christmas to all of our blog followers, wherever you are in the world!

We hope you have a wonderful time over the festive period.

Is it a bird, is it a plane....

...no, it's the I.S.S. (International Space Station)!
As some of our guests will know, I do like to point out things of interest that are happening here and one of the things I make sure of telling everyone is the times that the ISS travels over Les Granges. Given the superb clear sky here it's usually pretty easy to spot the bright dot that is the space craft speeding overhead at over 400 kilometres a second, or put it another way, over 14,100 miles per hour, no wonder then that 90 minutes after this picture was taken, it passed over us again after doing a full circle of our planet...amazing!

Winter early evening at Les Granges

After a couple of weeks in England we have now returned home for the winter and are planning all the latest work that needs doing over the next few months. Lots to do as usual including some new user friendly steps from the gite courtyard up to the Haybarn, new wood terracing near the gite swimming pool to name just a couple of things.
The weather here at the moment is very nice, after cold nights and chilly mornings the afternoons brighten up followed by as the sun sets, early evening mist (as pictured above) creeping slowly up the valley towards Les Granges, at which point it's time to light the house lounge fire and get settled indoors for the night...lovely!