Now I have got the last blog post off my chest – it is getting easier to write again about life and living here in France so – out with the old and in with the new – -
I have a lot of projects I plan to be researching, places to visit and people to meet. Our building work at Villa Roquette is all done although there are a lot of additions and improvements I think about, all the accommodation is ready and we are filling up with clients.
I hope soon to be sorting out my schedule for photography – my thoughts have been to shuckle down to doing only something like collodion wet plate work with the aim of a sort of meditative concentration on one image at a time rather than blanket opportunistic recording – but, who knows what will evolve – perhaps some innovative thinking, using applications of new developments in physics and chemistry – laser scanning onto a three dimensional wet collodion spherical box perhaps 
I also have the transcripts of my Mothers diaries from 1939 to 1945, plus some photo albums and records to make into a blog for her – I have done one brief introduction on the blog at Twiku but I may put this into a new structure to keep it together. She has recorded her life as a WREN and in the land army during the second world war when she was in Egypt and Palestine working on communications. She still keeps a daily diary of her life here with us in France.
A project I wish to pull together is a new website to coordinate listings and booking requests for all the private B&B and guest house accommodation here in Languedoc – in the summer we get hundreds of requests for our own accommodation which we cannot accept because we are full, but some excellent places have few bookings because they are not visible or the local tourist offices do not know about them. This is not another advertising site or a hotel booking site, but a shared cooperative group of owners working together and, hopefully, having some simple software to help show options alternatives and availability – the idea is to get this as a mobile app.
Other projects I will be moving on are the solar heating and energy storage and saving ideas I wish to apply to our home.
But slowly and steadily – it feels good to be thinking again.