Project 366 : Photo Diary Week 5

And we're finally into February - phew ! January seemed to last forever. I hate going to work AND coming home from work in the dark, so fingers crossed, the days will start stretching out a bit longer now. Here's what we got up to in the last week of January.

Sunday 26th January - Pierre is still working his way through the things he got for Christmas and he had great fun making the Chocolate Pizza kit that Sophie got for him. It came with a bag full of mix for the base, which he had to make up with water. The base already had chocolate chips in it, then there was a little bag of Smarties to sprinkle over the top and a bag of marshmallows to cover it with. After ten minutes in the oven, it was ready to eat and was declared delicious by both Pierre and Juliette. (He's nice, he shares ! lol)

Monday - My shoes finally arrived in the post. They were supposed to be for Christmas (a present to myself, supposedly from the kids !) but they took a while to arrive. They're lovely though. I already have a few pairs of Converse and these are fake fur-lined fake Converse. That's a lot of fakes in one sentence but they're lovely - really comfortable and they keep my feet lovely and warm !

 Tuesday - As usual on a Tuesday, I popped out of school to grab some lunch with a couple of friends in town. It was a weird day weather-wise. The sky seemed really low and there was a mist all day long. This is the rather impressive-looking council building just opposite where we ate, with a perfect reflection in the water. 

Wednesday - Juliette wanted to celebrate finishing her mock exams (all day on Tuesday and Wednesday morning) so we decided to start watching Hunger Games. I'd grabbed the boxset for half price in the sales. This is one of the films that we'd watched at the very end of the year a couple of years ago in class (the kids get to bring in a DVD to watch after the final grades and conseil de classe class meetings) but I was intrigued about how it ended as we only watched the first DVD. We've watched the first three DVDs now and only have one to go. Go Katniss !

Thursday - Pierre had some Skittles sweets and decided to get artistic, making a ring of them in a dish then pouring on some water. I have to admit, I was impressed. He'd seen it on a Youtube video apparently and wanted to try it out. He then made me go ewwww by eating all the soggy sweets at the end though. Kids ! *sigh*

Friday - Today is Brexit Day. I grabbed a quick snap of the French and European flags on a local school as we drove past on the bus. Who knows what will happen next? I'm not too worried in terms of our personal situation, as the kids all have dual nationality and I, luckily, applied for dual nationality the year before Madhouse Daddy died. At work, we're organising a school trip to England for the end of the year, but I have no idea what will happen in the future. Time will tell, I suppose. Some of my British friends in France who haven't got dual nationality are pretty worried about how things will turn out right now.

Saturday - As I was grabbing some quick shopping, Pierre asked if we could have a galette des rois. It's a bit late really as it's usually in the first week of January, for Epiphany, but they are still in the supermarkets, so I grabbed an apple one. After cutting it into slices, Pierre, as the youngest member of the family, went under the table and said who each piece was for as I was handing them out. There were only three of us, as Sophie is now in England, and obviously, the little fève (china figurine) was in the fourth part ! I chopped that into thirds and Juliette was the happy winner of a little elephant. She declared that she had never won the fève before, which I find hard to believe, but there you go. She was happy and even wore the paper crown for a while. Kids ! (Again  - I keep saying that this week !)

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