Here’s what I got up to last week:

• Travelled to France by ferry on Wednesday night (Portsmouth to St Malo) and the sea was a bit rough but not too bad.
• Drove to Marion’s parents Thursday morning and arrived in time for lunch
• Marion’s brother and family arrived Friday night
• Had an excellent Christmas day and Christmas Eve (French celebrate on the 24th more than on the 25th).
• Kids super excited by Christmas and super happy to get their presents from Santa, and also to see their cousins.
• I got a whisky, some in-ear headphones for Zwifting, a jumper and some chocolates.
• Helped Arthur make a Lego train. Mainly it was finding and sorting bits of Lego but it enabled him to make it in two days so he was super happy.
• Helped Emma with her drawing and painting.
• Did part of a puzzle.
• Had a Zoom call with my parents in England wishing them happy Christmas
• Read lots finishing “Every Man for Himself and God Against All” and half of the next book “Whale” by Cheon Myeong-Kwan (very good!)
• Watched a lot of the cyclocross via a VPN and Discovery+. MvdP, WvA and TP are back but so far it has been a MvdP masterclass.
• Played in the local park with the kids
• Went to Christmas eve mass in the village for the children
• Ate a lot of delicious food and drank a bit (hardly any really) of wine and beer. Feels really great to not feel groggy the next morning at Christmas time!
• The weather here is really mild so Marion’s Dad turned off the heating and put on a nice Christmas fire both Christmas days.

Learning

• Reading up on @scope in CSS with Chrome for Developers and 12 Days of Web