It was a busy day today.

It started after the usual fire-cleaning and breakfast by chopping another huge pile of wood ready for the next bout of winter - due on Thursday, so we are told. Now there's four bucketsfull outside together with a huge pile heaped up against the wall in here - good plan it was to tile the wall behind the fireplace.

Then it was checking over the documents for the radio recording this afternoon - a total of 31 pages! That is a record by anyone's standard. And it's a good job I bought that new printer a couple of months ago so I could print it all out. Bye-bye another rain forest.

Next stop was down to see Liz as our chauffeur has abandoned us and we worked out a few more things, and then down to Gerzat. We recorded 4 programmes of the traditional type that will see us through to the 25th of January (back in the studio on the 18th) and then we did the Christmas Special. 1 hour we were allowed, and on the Sunday rehearsal we did the play in 58 minutes (add another Carol to make up the time) but today we had to crop a huge chunk out as we overran by miles. No idea how that happened.

The Christmas Special is going out on Christmas Eve at 19:00 and being repeated a couple of times. You can hear it on Radio Arverne (89.8mhz) but if you can't get the reception then I have the programme saved to disk and I'll be uploading it to the internet once the broadcast has passed and you can hear us on the internet.

Tomorrow we are recording for Radio Tartasse - the first radio station to want to syndicate us. Then it's off to Montlucon with Terry and Liz to do our last-minute shopping before the weather closes in again.