It is bucketing down. Ealing is looking incredibly shabby, phone and internet connections still seem a distant dream and valuables are among items missing from the belongings delivered here from France.
Monette the (essentially Parisian) cat has gone down with SAD Syndrome. She clearly prefers not only Provençal sunshine to dull, rain-laden west London skies but lizards to grey squirrels.
But within a few days, all this will be behind me. It would be unwise to gloat but I shall be heading back to sunshine, albeit not to French sunshine, and leaving other parts of the famille Salut! to cope for now with BT, errant removal men, rotten weather and troubled pets.
My friend and former colleague Nick Britten made a compelling case for Derby in a recent comment, but I have decided to stick with Plan A and head for Abu Dhabi.
Watch this space for further news on various fronts. Salut! lives on........
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