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Post by Su on Jun 28, 2024 18:48:24 GMT
Tonight. Back at one of our favourite tapas restaurants. #FrigateFriday for a glass of wine. Beehive later too Tomorrow. Shopping for bits n bobs as we have a hold suitcase so can take Almagroti home for JB. Later meeting friends for another tapas bar they recommended. Sunday. Last day. Packing. Saying tarra a bit to friends. Watching England get knocked out of the euros. Coach. Plane. Home at stupid o’clock in the morning. Monday. Back to work 😭
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Post by anglais on Jun 29, 2024 5:56:38 GMT
Friday...I know I shouldn't have but I did a bit more weeding, and attacked the brambles and nettles that are coming through the fence from the Lunatic Ballards piece of waste ground. My forearms are scratched to hell but I quite like the feel of stinging nettles and pull them up with my bare hands. Still a load to do but we are due storms Saturday so wanted to get as much garden rubbish bagged up before the deluge. The Great Tits that have been nesting in the terrace wall have fledged and moved on. They have kept us amused for a month or so, but the chicks made right racket.
Aubergine Pasta for tea.
Saturday...Just opened up the windows and shutters. Monsieur Drufeille our newest resident in Geriatric Corner is moving house and we are really sad about this. He has only been here about 3 months. He moved in Madame GoGo's appartment after the lovely Noel moved out earlier in the year. Monsieur D is a really lovely old chap, and thats coming from me who is in advancing years myself. Is it haunted, I dunno? He asked if he could leave his car in front of our garage so they could get the removal van right in front of his house to load up his furniture which has to come up a steep flight of garden steps to the road.
Load up the car with rubbish and a run to the tip before the storms arrive about 10.00am. Tidy the cellar and garage, well move stuff about a bit. Paperwork this afternoon. In France Doctors do not keep your medical records, you maintain everything yourself on a Government site called Mon Espace Sante. If you do not keep it up to date then fool you. But it takes ages. We have all our medical records on M.E.S, the desktop, backed up on a hard drive and also a paper copy of everything. Its a few folders. All Medical type people can access your site at any time and contact patients about appointments and so forth via M.E.S. and also with an automatically generated email. It works a treat if you have email and/or a mobile phone. Oh...we have a mobile phone after 19 years of doing without. You cannot register for anything without a mobile phone number, land lines not accepted and we got fed up with our bank keep cutting off our internet banking and not getting at our pensions in the UK without an international phone call to the helpdesks.
Might watch Cricket, might watch football. Might just hang out of the window and watch the storm. And its the first day of The Tour de France. Or should that be Giro d'Italia for the first few days. I will check that out. The mountain stages are fantastic.
Chilli Beef Stir fry for tea. I am cooking after Chrissie has spent all afternoon chopping and dicing. I get the best deal I think.
Sunday...Its the first Vide Grenier of the year at Montclar. We will probably go to have a look at what junk people are selling and to have a look at the new restaurant. When we came here it was Amanlecar, a made up name of the 3 ladies that ran it. Then for about 10 years it was Le Table de Josephine, but Josie moved out last winter for the Dordogne where there are more tourists and money. The commune own the beautiful building and have decided to take the Resto on themselves and have found a chef. We will have a beer and see what its like.
Coriander Chicken for Tea with the football. I cooked it last week and Chrissie declared it her favourite curry, and we still have half a bunch or coriander left.
Have a great weekend everyone.
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Post by Karoline on Jun 30, 2024 9:42:05 GMT
Friday - We had an electrician come & sign off the electrics in the garage conversion, means we can get the final certificate 🎉🎉, it’s only taken 2 1/2yrs. I would normally have been in town with my friend for lunch, thankfully we weren’t, at about 12.45pm, a car veered off the road & into the outside tables of a sea front restaurant. Shocking news, 2 people rushed to hospital, a customer & one of the waitress’s. Thankfully both released later in the day. Police still investigating, elderly driver was ok. Evening - went out with my girly friend while the men went off playing snooker - I was exceptionally drunk but not ill Saturday- effects of the drink really kicked in & I slept late (mid day). Took TT to pick up his winnings & put his bets on, what he’d won payed for his bets & about £5 left. Spent most of the afternoon in the garden & watched footie in the evening - wow what a thunder storm that was Sunday - another slow day, take garden stuff to the tip in Portland &!go for a walk up there, it’s peeing with rain & we will get extremely wet. I’d like to go into town later, we’ve had a few new shops open, just want to be nosy. Hope you’ve had a good one xx
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