This week I am focusing upon my long-overdue book on Pomerol that has been delayed due to the sheer amount of work that Wine-Journal consumes. Therefore I spend most of the day translating J.A. Garde’s “L’Histoire de Pomerol” looking for nuggets of useful information. There are a lot of technical French words last used around 1802 in some dying hamlet in Central France. Anyway…the chapter on Petrus is coming on nicely although I realize that there is an unbelievable amount of work to do. I am shattered by the time I have to bath the kids in the evening and whilst they are making imaginary concoctions with soapy bathwater, I teach them a few 17th century French verb conjugations, just in case they are not included in their infant school curriculum.
In other news, we are supposed to hear from Natwest regarding our mortgage application but the phone does not ring. Consequently I spend the entire day assuming we have been rejected and will spend our entire lives in rented accommodation due to our torpedoed credit score.
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