August 2014: "A heart for france"

On one of our Sunday afternoon drives (a French custom and also to give our son some driving practice and to get away from too much screen time!), we visited a gorgeous typical Ardèche village. As we have wound our way around many of the roads here, we are struck by the number of cemeteries with a magnificent view of the country side. Have to say that Ardèche is very hilly.

NB the word 'cemetery' comes from latin 'coemeteruim', greek 'koimeterion' meaning 'sleeping place'. Reminds me of 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18

Our holiday time in July was reasonably R & R, but our first week saw us sending off No.1 son to Australia for a year's study. (He's settling in nicely and not far from his grandparents.)

The rest of the time we supported No.2 son who has spent 6 weeks picking cherries and pears, although there was a lot of rain which spoiled crops. And with No.3, our daughter, we did odd-jobs around the house, outings, just hung out and read.