Time off for good behaviour

Just back from a week long trip to France and a visit to my old friend Norma in Les Landes (south of Bordeaux) In line with our usual habits we took a trip to Diffus-Laine before leaving Bordeaux to buy fabulous fabrics and haberdashery to fuel our week long sewfest. D-F sell ends of rolls from Paris along with trims and curtain fabrics and knitting wool and always does serious damage to credit cards!
Ina week I made 4 dresses and put together a quilt top from a jelly roll (pre-cut strips for the uninitiated) so I did well, mixed in of course with long French lunches with friends and an attempt or two to get a tan by the pool. Loved the markets we went to, drooling over the amazing food, and linens we found. As befits two grannies, we both looked at a stall selling over the top glitzy dress frocks for kids and said together our 4 year old grand-daughters would go completely crazy over them. Apart from a two hour wait in what Bordeaux airport call a departure lounge and I would call a tin shack, it was a great week, I can't wait for next time!