Lynne leaves

Mon 19 May

After a couple of days rest [ie market, gardening, more gardening, plastering, moving some broken tiles that Chris had thrown on the ground outside the front door and which were lethal and an afternoon with the Gardening Club], the plan was to get back to work.  As Lynne said, looking at the hole I was planning on filling, how difficult can it be to stick a load of stones together? It's just like icing a cake that's fallen to bits.  The only similarity I could find was that in both cases when you drop stuff on the floor you can pick it up and use it again if no one is looking.  You're certainly not going to lick your fingers - nothing like icing a bloody cake at all.

Anyway today got off to a slow start, despite the lovely weather.  After breakfast we went to Toni's so that Lynne could print out her boarding pass as I couldn't remember how to get ours to work, then Leclerc's so Lynne could stock up with things to take home.  As we couldn't decide what to do in the afternoon, we ended up doing nothing much.  Lynne did still more crochet and I did some more plastering but then ran out of plaster before I could skim over the surface.  Looks pretty rough at the moment, you'd have thought they'd have made the tub of plaster just a bit bigger.  It's so unhelpful! Hopefully it won't look too bad once it's painted, but I'll wait til the cabinet de douche has been installed.

From about 4pm the wind was blowing strongly and there was a definite feel of rain in the air.  Too windy to start painting so we just pottered.  The wind got stronger, the air was very warm, there was lots of weather, dinner and red wine!!

Tues 20 May

It rained during the night but in the morning it peed down, putting paid to our idea of a nice day out before Lynne tackled Ryanair so just a quick trip to the Laundrette to dry everything before coming home to pack.  It was cloudy and rainy, with occasional mega lightning and thunder, but it was still nice and warm, thank goodness.

Pascal came around in reply to my email.  He said that in order to get bright light flooding in, we need a rigid tunnel instead of the current flexible one.  It will cost 150 euro on top of what we have paid to get a rigid tunnel and will take a week to arrive so I have no idea if it will be installed before I leave for SA and if it is whether it will be what we really want.

So, a spot of lunch, Lynne packed [some of her stuff she packed into bags that she had sewn into the lining of her jacket - please God don't ever let me fly Ryanair - and she was wearing 3 jumpers].  When we got to the airport I dropped her off, can't stand long goodbyes, and headed back.

I was a bit sad, saying goodbye to my oppo, my fellow wise woman, my kitchen fairy and I was listening to 41 Shots when the heavens opened. Quite frankly my wonderful little car almost changed into front crawl as we sailed along the Bergerac-Bordeaux road.  If I'd had a sheet in the car I could have just sailed home.  Ahoy me hearties! 

I spent half an hour in Leclerc's to let the worst of the storm pass and then went home, planning to light a fire and hunker down.  The rain eased off so I cleaned out the caravan and locked it up.  When I say the rain eased off, I mean that I decided that I probably did not need an ark at the present time.  I did some housework - riveting, I know - and prepared some food for the next few days. 

I've got a lot to do!  Tomorrow's going to be busy.

Two weeks today, I will be mani/pedi,  coiffured and massaged back to myself.  Hard to imagine!