Awesome Autumn

Once again apologies to regulars for no news for the last few weeks. The camera has not been on strike, but instead used for photographing plumbing and light fittings as our search for a permanent place to live intensified. The good news is we have found somewhere to buy - a brand new two bedroom flat (with double garage) near Annemasse train station with its good links to Geneva for work, shopping, onward travel and tourism (in no particular order). Its a nice size and a 'blank canvas' for us to equip, decorate and furnish as we see fit (except for the bathroom which comes 'done'!).

So the last two weeks have been spent with mortgage brokers, banks, kitchen designers, choosing parquet and generally everything else that you need to do to buy and equip a brand new flat. The flat development is still in the final stages however is due to be finished within days - and once we have completed all the legal bits we should hopefully be in by early/mid-December. So exciting and expensive times ahead no doubt.

So to help pay for the new place two salaries would help. Therefore lady luck came calling last week and I have found work. All the effort that I have put in over the last two months has paid off and I have found a job which is a really good career opportunity. So that all starts tomorrow and today is my last weekday afternoon of my mini career break. How am I spending it - doing laundry (and blog writing)!




After a busy few days kitchen planning and interviewing, we took a nice relaxed walk yesterday afternoon through the park and the lavish suburb of Conches and on to a stretch of the never too far away River Arve. This is a much quieter, more woody stretch and despite some cold weather last week, the trees were still hanging on to their leaves and their glorious colour. I know there's been plenty of waxing lyrical on this blog about how beautiful the autumn has been out here but its true and yesterday was the picture postcard crowning glory. I'll let the pictures do the talking this time with the final sobering thought from a passer-by yesterday - "in a few days it will all be gone" in other words "so enjoy it while it lasts". How true, how true....