Living in Brittany

I think i must suffer from SADs ( seasonal something disorder ) something to do with lack of daylight as I always get cranky in December, hate going out and go to bed early perhaps its a primal hibernation urge but it gets better after a few weeks in January. On reflection it might a reaction to the rampant consumerism of Christmas still it passes.
My sister came for a week ( so she thought ) at the beginning of the month, fortunately her husband took out breakdown insurance as his car hadn't been starting too good recently and sure enough it didn't start the day before the return and they had to stay another 6 days while the garage sorted out the problem. It was only a sparking problem but as Volvos aren't so common in France the spare parts ( distributor cap and condenser ) had to come from Sweden!
Xav has been doing his work experience this week he was supposed to do it in a restaurant in Plestin but the owner has some problems so at the last minute Paulien got him a place in Super U which has been great. Normally work experience is just watching and taking notes but Xav has been stacking shelves hauling pallets around. He comes home completely worn out and is beginning to realise that there is a point in working at school as he doesn't think much to shelf packing as a career option.
The weather has been really mild but I am surprised that if you drive inland just 5 minutes its quite a few degrees colder and often they have a frost whereas we have nothing in fact we have had just one frost so far this winter. We get one of our regular visitors tomorrow, she is very cheap to keep as we keep her on a chain in the orchard, yes its a goat from our Dutch friends who go back to Holland every year for Christmas.
This is the time of the year to wish all my readers ( all two of them ) a happy and festive time. Bloavez Matt