Well hi everyone, here we are and it's official, we're mountain people! And the fluffies are adjusting to being mountain fluffies. We arrived safely Monday evening as planned and our stuff arrived Weds night and Thurs morn and we signed this morning at 9am. So we are the owners!!!

Monday as exceedingly stressful as you can imagine: trying to keep the fluffies in one place and calm, the new owners, their parents arriving stomping all over the place, the removals people doing their thing etc. Arghh. In the end I drugged the cats early and hid them in the reserve. Well, that is to say 2 of them, one of them got loose, but we later trapped her in the reserve and had to put on the tough gloves and shove her in the panier. 2 hours at the notaire - not bad! - whizzed back to the Tref and said our goodbyes and shot off. It as all a bit wierd, we left the notaire without a penny and without any proof we had sold anything. Today we left the notaire with 5 copies of attestations of all we'd bought plus a reimboursement of notaire fees.

About a half hour into the drive (Dave was driving) he looked in the rear view mirror and said 'hello', and there was Mittens treading carefully over the duvet! We saw later that she had undone the zip -who says cats are stupid?! She was very sweet and just sat on my knee admiring the view. However, we put her back on our first motorway stop, as we had to keep winding the window down to pay the tolls and didn't want to risk it!

Well I will go into more detail tomorrow, but I was so excited about everything I woke up at 5am, and I'm bushed! Thanks to Kylie and Soniak and Kommerse for their comments, it's nice to know there is someone reading this! Thanks also for the link to the other foodie site. More tomorrow, snoreeeeeeeeeeeeeee xx