Yes, Brain of Britain drove all of the way to Commentry to do his shopping this afternoon, only to find when he arrived there that he had forgotten his money, his wallet and his bank cards.
And so all the way back to here to fetch them and then go all the way back again.
That meant that I didn’t have time to do much shopping and so I just did the bare essentials – and then only some because I forgot quite a lot, I reckon.
And after that, a nip to the swimming baths at Neris-les-Bains.
It was freezing in there this afternoon and I wasn’t sorry to come out after an hour or so.
But I did have an amusing time watching a group of kids in there. All aged between 6 and 8 I reckon and all came in individually with parents, but after a while I noticed that they were all playing together in a corner of the shallow end.
It never ceases to amaze me how unself-conscious kids of that age are, and how quickly they all seem to integrate.
FC Pionsat St Hilaire’s 3rd XI were playing Sauret this evening at football down at the bottom of Division 4 of the Puy de Dome District league in Pionsat.
For once they had a full side out with a couple of new players as well as a few decent players who have featured for the second XI. And so they spent most of the match peppering the Sauret goal whereas the opposition just contented themselves with a few breakaways.
And such is the perversity of modern football that Sauret won the encounter by 2-1.
This was another match that Pionsat threw away. They really do need to win encounters like this if they want to crawl away from the basement.
