So much to tell you about...

We're back from our pilgrimage to the mountains and all doing fine.

I'll write up some more detailed accounts of various parts of the trip over the coming days, but We can start at the end and work back through the trip.

We left Vaujany just before 11 and drove over the Col du Glandon that Bent and I had cycled past on Friday. Everyone fell asleep and we got to Annecy for our picnic lunch in the sun at about 1. After lunch we had a quick stop at the supermarket and then headed for home. We stopped in Rhienfelden in Switzerland for supper at a nice bar on the river that I used to use when I worked down there.

We got to the ferry at 7 on Sunday morning and were home in time for brunch. The hardest part of the day was, however, yet to come. We chose this as the day to take DK's and J's dummies off them. J was fine with it, but DK cried a lot. He cried for an hour before he went to sleep and then woke at 11 and cried for another 1½ hours until finally giving in to tiredness and sleeping again. This has been rather hard on all of us, but DK had to get rid of the dummy (pacifier) before he has his cleft palate operation in September.

My weight during the holiday seems to have held stable with all of the cycling and French food so this morning I weighed 99.4kg but I am hopeful that there is some more muscle in that than there used to be. I even have brown legs now with some added macho scrapes from a small climbing accident last week (on a kiddies climbing wall!)