Bonjour bloggers

Yes, it's still raining for the slugs. Wish I'd taken a photo of the hugest snail I've ever seen yesterday. It was really fat. It measured about 3 inches across, that was half-inside it's shell, too!

Well, we were some 1000 meters high. Perhaps that's the size of snails at that height? We did a bit of house-hunting up in St-Cergue. Well, that really was the real Switzerland. Real chocolate-box houses there! So cute! But my God, it was high. And it kept on just going up and up. The air was very fresh!

My husband wasn't really very impressed with the height. And I'm sure I used to be more afraid of heights than I am now. I think Switzerland has nearly cured me of that: since it's a bit pointless being afraid of heights in Switzerland, there are rather a lot of mountains and hills to get your head around. He said that you grow more red-blood cells if you live higher up. My goodness, that must've accounted for that giant snail then! Does anything else grow, if you live at altitude? The people looked normal enough! Not fatter than other people (due to a colder temperature) Mind you, it was a little off-putting when it began to sleet, just a little, in the first week of June. Though we are having a cold summer so far. But that scenery! It just blew me away. Crammed full of trees and green and fresh mist from the mountains. The dog went nuts, running around down little windy-woody paths. I think we were lucky to get him back into the car.

We did try to have a picnic. Where did the 'k' go in the word 'picnic' who nicked it? Anyway, it was too wet to picnic outside. In fact, it did rain ALL day. Again! So we were very soggy for most of the day. We ate home-made sausage roll and potato salad. The sausage roll travelled all over the car, that's flakey pastry for you!  

It's lucky I can write this really. I got a little enthusiastic with the hoover the other day and sucked up the letter 'e' on this keyboard. Had to open up the hoover and fish it out. So, beware if you hoover your keyboards. Not all the letters are that fixed  

Just finished a lovely watercolour illustration for a children's book. I'm really pleased with it. It took about six hours from start to finish. It's always such a surprise when it's finished. You never really know, what the end result will look like. I love doing book illustrations.

Must just show you this farmhouse we looked at. This village was called 'Villars-le-Terroir!

Honestly! Could you live in a village called that? And, more importantly, why was it called that? If anybody knows, please post! What happened in that village. Is there a monster living in the woods? Eating people who stray into the night? This house looks a bit like the souls have long since left! Why? And where did they go?

Anyway, I think I got a bit carried away for a moment there. Keep warm and dry and don't have NIGHTMARES