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Helli, Pigale!
It will be wild on Corsica!
Stay home and keep warm!
It is 2°C here. Snow cannot be far off!
The Christmas lights were switched on in my town this evening.
The town is packed, I believe!
Lots of happy folk!

Hi, Rusty!
The school inspection went well, I think.
We liked the headmistress and the children seemed happy and well-motivated. There was a nice ambience in the school.
There is a good scheme in progress for dealing with children of all level of abilities , too, which is encouraging.
I would put it in our top three choices! I am feeling a little less dispirited!
You have been to The Joinery before? Wasn't this one of the first cafes that you mentioned going to with the girls? It sounds familiar? Remind me where it is again?
(Do they do bacon rolls, though?)
It is cold here, too, I was feeling frozen by the time I got home at tea-time. Railway stations are not the warmest of places!
But snow....? I do hope we don't have any of that! It's pretty in the first instance bu ta mence thereafter!

Sorry, Rusty...typo!
Should have read "but a menace thereafter"!

Helli, Elle,
Sounds a good school! One more to visit?
Yes, we have been to The Joinery a few times.
It is a bit further away, in Meigle, Perthshire.
Meigle is a little village and has claims to be the final resting place of Queen Guinevere. I have my doubts!
Tomorrow I am heading out with my grandson, oldest granddaughter and youngest granddaughter, who is eight!
She thinks she has been missing out on something!
Not sure where we shall head.
No sign of snow your way?
Clear here too, but there is some on the hill tops.
Our gritters are out!

Hi, Rusty!
We have TWO more schools to visit - my daughter has moved the goal posts!
She has found yet another school to include in the list of possibilities. I have never known such a lot of schools within a catchment area - and she is excluding a couple that she considers are "very poor" ones!
So one more this coming week....and one the week after that.....
Then it is decision time!
You are going out a lot this week! Is your youngest granddaughter (Miss O' Hara? because of her red hair?) the sister of Miss "Around -the- World" then?
I get confused!
Queen Guinevere, the consort of King Arthur , was romantically involved with Sir Lancelot , if I remember correctly? Didn't this love affair break up the Knights of the Round Table?
And didn't Tennyson write a poem about the two of them?

Hello, Elle!
I hope your daughter appreciates her old mother accompanying her all over the place vetting schools!
Miss O'Hara (we call her the wee Irish one, because of her glorious red hair!) and Miss Around the World are half-sisters, and although there is a large age gap, they are very close.
I am not up on the story of the Round Table. A tall tale, surely?
Surely it is all made up? Meigle would be a long way from wherever Camelot was?
We have an old Prime Minister buried at Meigle, though.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman. He was not a myth!
Wind is rising here but no snow, so far!

Hey Rusty, less of the "old" if you don't mind!!! You are as young as you feel!
And yes, she told me this afternoon that she appreciates it very much! Apparently, I am "very useful" as I ask a lot of relevant questions!
I don't think it is known whether there was ever a "real" King Arthur? He is believed to be a mythological figure from Medieval Times, who was the head of the kingdom of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table.
There have been a few hypotheses as to whom Arthur might be - but I don't think there was ever a conclusion? (someone may put me right here?)
The reason for the "Round" table is that everyone sitting at might be considered equal.
I have just been told that we might expect snow tomorrow in London and the South -East? I do hope not!
And we shan't have any gritters - Bromley Council works on the policy of horses and stable doors.......

Hello, Elle!
Yes, useful people can come in handy at times!
So... are we to take it Arthur and Guinevere are on a par with the Tooth Fairy? If so, who is it who is buried at Meigle?
Now, Avalon? That had to do with Camelot?
I had a CD by a group called And Did Those Feet and one of them, a lady called Ina Williams, sang Avalon Yet.
It was beautiful, about moorhens taking flight.
She had a beautiful voice.
Do you know And Did Those Feet?
Well let us hope there is no snow overnight!

Elle, if you put "Avalon Yet" by And Did Those Feet into Youtube, you can hear Ina Williams singing this beautiful song.
It is good for the soul!

My car was covered in ice crystals at midnight last night (Buckinghamshire).
Elle, my mother used to say "less of the old" !! I am pledged to use none of her sayings. Do I? Yes.