Blogs from Saint-Lo, Lower Normandy, France, Europe

Hello beautiful people, So a week has passed by very quickly here and the cupcakes have been baked and sold in their hundreds! after a full day of being shown how to decorate them and with deep concentration and a little frustration i managed to decorate many of them and am vey proud of my efforts! due to an unusual burst of desperatly wanting to be organised i found a notepad and pen and wrote all the colours, flavours, decorations, prices down so we was able to keep track and bounced off a few of my own ideas which were all mega girly and involved vast quantities of edible glitter but looked great and sold well. I actually REALLY enjoyed making them! and can't wait to make more when i return! if only i could find ... read more

We have arrived at our next host in a small town called Sourdeval in Normandy and are now living with a lady called Jayne, her husband Nigel and sons Cameron (19) and Finlay (8) the husband lives and works in England alll week so we won't get to meet him until Friday evening, the house is nice and surrounded by coutryside and our first view in the morning is of cows eating grass but luckily these Cows dont belong to the Jones's family so are just for looking at but dont need feeding 4 times a day by us. Seperate from the house and in the front garden is a gite, which is almost the size of our old flat and has kitchen, front room, bedroom with 4 beds and a bathroom which they rent out ... read more