visitors and barings
I was very proud of myself on Monday. I cleaned and re-oiled the barings on my rollerbaldes! Something of a DIY feat for me. 
To be honest it doesn’t seem to have made much difference…!
Yesterday I had a visit from the ECM director of the Australian office, Ray. It was nice to be able to get to know him and share a bit about France and the ministy here. The sun was shining so we went out into the city and enjoyed a tea out in the city square - the first if the year! In the evening I invited some friends round and we ate together.
Ray stayed overnight a Marthe’s house. What a language nightmare! I went with him just to translate for an hour. Marthe speaks French and Polish, I speak Polish, French and English, and Ray speaks Ukranian and English. Arghhh! (Ukraninan is similar to Polish - sort of like French and Spanish.) It was a real mish-mash of languages round the table but we mananged to communicate!
