Cruel bush

I sent the kids out to gather greenery this afternoon to make the Christmas wreath for the door.  TallGirl brought back a bunch of this lethal stuff - the leaves are super spiky.  The berries though are very strange and seem to grow out of tiny bumps on the bottom of the leaves.  Very odd.

The gardener/electrician team were here, so there was much advancing of work - some of it was even right (the electricity stuff, thankfully) but the new path (another one) is in the wrong place.

This morning I headed into Castres to sort out the second bit of admin on making one of the cars French - you need a quitus fiscal that proves there's no VAT to pay or you've paid it.  Last time this was a bit of a pain and involved a long wait, but they have a new super-speedy system and it was done and dusted in ten minutes.  On the way home, buoyed by my mastery of French bureaucracy, I stopped in at a lighting shop and bought more lights (for the electrician to fit this afternoon).

At home, a letter awaited to show that French bureaucracy has many further tests to pose me...  (Seriously: it's almost like they don't want my business to pay tax.)