Ok well went for a walk to the neighbouring village and never found the cash machine so still have no money!

Am in surprisingly high spirits today (a few days ago I was about as anti this place as you could possibly be!) I hated the fact you have to undo a padlock to unlock our stupid big gates to acess the road just outside our kitchen window, I hated walking through the muddy slippy gravelly park to get to work twice a day, I hated the fact the washing mahine at the chateau DOES NOT WORK so all my clothes were unwashed and mouldy and dripping wet literally because it doesnt spin properly as it is so old. I hate the fact I have to carry laundry for 15 minutes up the hill to the chateau in the first place. Have yet to figure out how to make it actually USE the liquid I put in it. Hated the fact I always have to be dressed in black and white for work and the manageress didnt think to warn me; so I had to go to Intermarche (the local supermarket the only place around here to buy anything) to spend several euros I do not have on black and white tshirts. I still hate our smelly house and my creaky lumpy bed with a huge dip in the middle.......

This keyboard is playing up so am going to post this first and carry on in another post to see if this has worked properly first........