WOW!! Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Results received 15th December and I'm pinching myself to believe I have qualified for a BA (open) degree!! When I did my first OU course I never envisaged arriving at this day!! I can't wipe the smile off my face, I keep finding myself grinning in public!
:-)

Paris in Winter

It's a few weeks now since we enjoyed a four night trip to Paris, (23rd - 27th November), thanks to the wonders of cheap flights and Coventry airport. With the City getting into the pre-Christmas season, Paris was as ever an exciting, lively, and great place to be in. On this occasion we visited the refurbished Orangerie with its stunning Monet water lilies and an absolute jewel of an art collection; the Picasso Museum, which brought to life so many of the works of art studied earlier in the year, it was very satisfying, and the Rauschenberg and Klein exhibitions at the Pompidou Centre, again bringing to life 'Art of the 20th Century'. The shop windows in the Madeleine were stunning with their displays of cakes, chocolates and glacé fruits. The church was enormous!!!

The Eiffel Tower shimmered on the hour with hundreds of white twinkly lights, complimenting the Christmas lights of Galeries Lafayette and Printemps.

We enjoyed views of the City by day whilst re-visiting Montmartre, and of the City by night, visiting for the first time the Montparnasse tower.

Mmmmmm perhaps just one more créme brulée :-)