Back to reality

We were up and out by 8am this morning and took Sophie's car and the VW into the garage at Moulton for their MOTs. Once the cars had been delivered we took Sophie to work and called into Aldi on the way home to buy something for dinner tonight.

Back home we had a quick breakfast and coffee, and then I set about reducing the piles of laundry! There was a washing machine in the Airbnb, but there was no dryer so we didn't do any washing in case we couldn't get it dry.

I spent the morning sorting it all out, unpacking and putting everything away. The cats were much more loving and affectionate this morning and I think they'd missed us while we'd been away. The young girl who'd come in to look after them had done a great job, though!

As well as sorting out the laundry, I cleaned downstairs and made everything tidy. The garage called at lunchtime to say the cars had passed their MOTs so we went to collect them in two trips. It was a relief they'd both passed, but one of the advisories for the VW was to repair a chip on the windscreen, which was caused on our first day in Normandy when a car overtook us on the autoroute and threw up a stone.

I spent the rest of the day writing the blog, and at 4.30pm we drove to Northampton to collect Sophie from work. She'd had a stressful first day back as there was a lot of re-shuffling going on in her company and she was looking forward to going home and relaxing!