Le Couvent Diary

For the past five years Ali and I have been part of a group of Roujanaises who meet to help local French, Swiss and Dutch women speak a bit more English. It is always huge fun.

Each time we meet in a different house - there're around a dozen of us. Today, after having spent an achy afternoon pruning vines, we met at lovely Sally & Paul's house. Sal was the headteacher in a primary school. As a result she always plans loads of fun things to do. Tonight was no exception. We spent an hour listening to, then watching a TV chef prepare a luscious-sounding orange and chocolate cheesecake.

A long list of new words and much concentration later, the group had the hang of the recipe and method. Just as we thought the lesson was over Sally, with a flourish, whipped out 'one she'd prepared earlier'.

And truly delicious it was. Now why wasn't school like that?

Ali & I have spent the last four days working on this website, and the sister site, Chateau Mal au Dos . We've tested it on Safari, Camino, Firefox and Internet Explorer, although not extensively. If you come across anything that doesn't work, or seems illogical we'd be very grateful if you could let us know.

Meanwhile, here's Ali looking boggy-eyed in her office while we're discussing the new site.