Where I'm living in France

Vieux Tours. These are some old buildings which overlook the Place Plumereau. I think they are beautiful!

Vieux Tours. These are some old buildings which overlook the Place Plumereau. I think they are beautiful!

The Place Plumereau, a square surrounded by restaurants, creperies and cafés.

This is the famous Loire River. I think the bridge is so striking. This is a five minute walk from my accommodation.

I thought I'd let you have a nose!

Love Kirsty xxx

Off to France

Just a quick post to let you all know that I am off to Tours in France on Friday. I'm very nervous and very excited at the same time. I'll be there until early January (of course I'll be home for Christmas!) and I'll be in Cadiz in Spain from February. If anyone fancies a trip over, I'd be delighted! Mum will pass on my contact details.

I don't quite know what to expect. My worries are what if no-one understands me? What if I get lost? What if I realise that after ten years of French learning, I actually can't speak it that well?

Tours looks a fantastic place. There seems to be a lot to do there so I will hopefully have no trouble in getting stuck in to life there. I'll be sure to send post cards!

Love you all!

Kirsty xxx

I PASSED! WOO HOO!

Hi, it's Margaret here just letting you know that I passed both parts of my AAT accounts exam!

I've been so nervous. It came as a shock considering I wasn't supposed to get them until tomorrow, but they e-mailed them to me. I wasn't that confident seeing as I didn't think my tutors explained things clear enough, which is why I was constantly asking them questions. Mostly 'why?, how?, or I don't understand!'.
Honestly one of them would talk about his daughter in London and family holidays and the other one (who was alright actually) spoke to you as if you already knew how to work out every aspect of accounts, even though it was our 1st year. Then again I suppose they couldn't have been too bad if I've passed can they?

I'm going out on Wednesday and celebrating with my mates. My dad's gonna pop down too. I took him, Thomas and Alex out for a meal for his birthday last week. we went to Maranto's on Lark Lane. It was good.

Anyway I'm gonna phone and text everyone now to tell them how unbelievably clever I am x

Hi everyone. I've put some photos of erica up seeing as some of you have asked about her. When she sends me photos of Kevin and Kelsey i'll post them on too.

Sixty? Never!

We appear to have had something of a 'Golden Age' in terms of family get-togethers lately. Within a few days of celebrating William's baptism we were once again together for Mum's 83rd birthday celebration at the Regan residence and the following Saturday we were at Olive's surprise 60th birthday party. It is very hard to believe that Olive is 60 - she looks sensational! I am inspired to think that it is genetic and to hope that I may have inherited the good gene. Huge thanks to Lorraine, Michelle, Stephanie and Lindsey who put on a lovely party for their mum. It was great to see so many of our cousins there.

I have given up trying to load photos onto Blogger. It's too labourious so I have put a set on Flickr instead called Olive's 60th Birthday.

Apologies to Michelle for shouting"'Ave it!" from the car when we spotted her at the cash machine by the roundabout in Wallasey Village. This was one of my more mature moments...