Saturday 1st October 2011 – ONE OF THE LOCAL SHOPS …

ronnet shop burn tout allier france… burnt down last night. And good and proper too! It’s the one in Ronnet, just a few kilometres from here and is one of those little shops that does a little of everything.

I was on my way back from swimming at Neris-les-Bains and I noticed it. So I made a few enquiries and was told that it happened at 22:00 Friday evening and there is nothing at all left.That is really sad because there aren’t really all that many shops in the vicinity these days and local shops need as much encouragement as they can get

Yes, I’ve been swimming today. It was another gorgeous day and so I worked on the computer until lunchtime and then went to Commentry. There, LIDL came up trumps with boxes of metal joints for carpentry, a radio-controlled clock with the laser alarm, and a pile of max-min external-internal thermometers that I have been trying to find for ages.

Swimming was fun because even though it was a glorious day, with it being October there were few people in the pool. However there was some Grandad there who had shown his chubby 4-year old grand-daughter how to jump in the deep end of the pool. So we were treated to a non-stop session of the running patter of tiny feet, a loud squeal of delight and then an enormous splash, all the way through the afternoon. Clearly someone was having a whale of a time.

And no footy tonight – nowhere within a reasonable distance. It’s the beginning of October too. Whatever is the world coming to?

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