Slightly worrying…my English is getting worse. I’m too busy trying to get my French right that I seem to have given up on speaking correct English and just say words and hope for the best. Grammar has gone to pot. God knows what I'll be like when I get back home!

I’m starting to wonder if things are ever going to settle down and if I’ll ever reach a point where I’ve managed to get all the stressful administrative/bureaucratic things DONE. Every time I think, right, everything is sorted out, something else rears its ugly head and rudely invades my ‘to do’ list. And nothing here is easy to do. The French seem to have an undying love for all things document-like.

I swear, if I have to fill in one more form….