A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 1545 (Tuesday) 31 st August 2021 I had a slighter later wake up alarm this morning so I wasn’t too happy when Badger bit me out of bed early. I was only doing two hours online with Switzerland today and as soon as I got started Badger opened one of Huw’s drawers, jumped in and slept for the next two hours. Today would have been my mother’s birthday so I always feel a bit blue on this date. I was looking for a new book to read and chose Carol Drinkwater’s, ‘Olive Farm’ and got a shock when I opened it to read a happy birthday mam inscription from me – spooky or what. Then I received a text from my Aunty Jennifer saying that she was thinking about my mother and a minute later I had another text from my new Italian student called Jennifer. The new school called me again today and as soon as I get my police record certificate I have a new job! It’s all very laid back, I haven’t had a real interview and they haven’t asked me for references but the job is mine. The school is situated

  Day 1544 (Monday) 30 th August 2021 It was a gorgeous day again and Huw kindly gave me a lift over to the villa. It was a lot quieter there today because their son, daughter-in-law with their baby have gone back to London and Eduard’s mum has gone back to Russia. Eduard wanted to revise independent prepositions again and he was almost word perfect. He told me that he is really delighted with the progress he has made since we started working together. Towards the end of our hour he ordered me a coffee from the kitchen and a delicious biscuit. I spent the hour with Olga on the terrace and she was very busy so we finished a little early. She told me that she is missing the family already and the house feels too big when they leave so I reckon I’ll have to go back to Monaco soon. I love going to the villa and hate catching the train to Monaco so it’s going to be tough. On top of this SNCF started work on the train tunnel between Villefranche and Nice and the trains are going in both dir