T Stands For.........Trying to keep it together!

Hi everyone, I really am trying to keep it together but after a succession of events it's not so easy! 

Our washing machine broke down a couple of weeks ago, okay made an appointment, only had to wait a week and it is now fixed. Meanwhile while waiting for that to take place the Nespreso machine needed descaling...did that, now it won't start, rang someone who told me what to do, nope! Okay we'll take it to the shop next time we go that way next Tuesday - we can use filter jug! Except that - we can't go that way now...or anywhere else,  our car died last Saturday...dead, totally! The AA came out charged it for 15 minutes and told hubby give it a long run! He got a quarter of a mile then got an error message so came back home! 

Rang the service dept of our garage - they can fix it on 8th January and that's only because we have a service booked for that day -  we will have to arrange a transporter to take the car!

Then there's our family party, I offered to host this and we had a date in mind, now someone has to work on that date - still to be re-arranged!!! A meal out with friends has had to be cancelled too as we were going to pick them up from two different houses. 

Then I sit back and think, at the moment we are reasonably healthy, we haven't got to move out of our home because of flood, structure problems or war. We can afford to heat our apartment, we have food in the cupboard/fridge, we have a computer so we have managed to get a delivery slot and a local small supermarket that we can walk to and we can choose what we want. 

We may be on our own on Christmas Day and that's fine too, hopefully family will call in at some time over the holiday time.

My three grown up children are taking me out tonight - we will have time to chat, something we don't do together when we have family gatherings.

All is good! 

Now, ramble over......continuing with our Journey to France last September!

After we visited the Rock shop we headed to Beynac castle - connections here with Eleanor of Aquitaine and her son Richard 1.

First we saw the beautiful view over the valley.

Crossbows on a ceiling hook

Sword slots in the dining table

Tea anyone?

I loved seeing this

The views from the castle were amazing...

...even more so when we saw these coming up towards the castle.

Noisy crows overhead!

As we were leaving a lady came along with some jangling keys, she was going to lock everything up - the keys were huge...and heavy!! She kindly held them up for us to take a photo

One final look back at Chateau Beynac

It is one of the most interesting castles we have visited....although with the Eleanor of Aquitaine connections you do realise I am slightly biased!

We were treated to an amazing sunset on the way back and then there was this when we got back.

The moon was rising above the Manoir.

For my ticket to tea this week I have a coffee that was served to me on Saturday while out with friends.

My friends had a swirly pattern on theirs.

Just right for joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T Stands For Tuesday at The  Altered Book Lover blog and for wishing everyone the very best  for this  Christmas time!

Thanks for looking, Chris