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Saturday 8th August 2009 – DOESN’T CALIBURN LOOK SMART?

caliburn french number plates les guis virlet puy de dome franceThe postie came by this morning and she dropped off a letter. This was the definitive insurance certificate for Caliburn.

This had Caliburn’s new registration details on it and so I put his new numberplates on him. We’re all legal now.

This means I’ll have to pay more attention to speed limits and the like as I’ll no longer be able to drift past them with “sorry, I’m a foreigner”. But such is life I suppose.

Taking this time out meant that I only put two loads of cement into the wall this morning and that seemed to disappear without trace. I can see me thinking again about my timetable and having a dramatic change of plan.

This afternoon in St Eloy I spent about 33 Euros, but that was due in part to LIDL having brought back into stock their trail mix and crushed nuts and the like, things that I put in my home-made muesli. It’s been out of stock for ages and so I stocked up today just in case this is only a temporary supply.

But the bad news is that the special offer rows are reducing and reducing – looks like the weekly promotions are running out of steam.

And the Carrefour is even worse. Their stock is getting less and less and judging by the length of the queues at the only two checkouts open, the staff is starting to disappear now. I wonder how long this arrangement will continue?

There was a brocante in St Eloy too, and you know how much of a fan I am of French brocantes. But this one had just 10 stalls, some of which were professional overpriced nonsense and the rest were just junk.

Nothing of interest for me so I came home and did some tidying up for my visitor due at 18:00 and who rang me up to say that he would be coming on Tuesday instead. That was that as far as I was concerned and so I came in, had a coffee and looked at the football results.

Crewe Alexandra lost at home to Dagenham and Redbridge, but then I suppose that it’s always difficult when you have to play against two teams at once. But I can see how this season is going to develop and it makes me wish that I’d carried on with the pointing.

Ahhh well.

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Sunday 26th July 2009 – TOMORROW THE WORLD!

courgette plant going berserk les guis virlet puy de dome franceI went into the greenhouse this evening to water the plants and this was what met me. Not a triffyd but a courgette plant making a desperate bid for freedom. It’s taken over all of the greenhouse and it’s heading for the door. This time next week it will have engulfed Claude’s house and by the end of the season it will have made it to Montlucon, judging by its present rate of growth.

My day of idleness got off to a good start at 07:45 when the alarm went off. I forgot to turn it off last night. Ahh well.

But I didn’t get up straight away and when I did come to my senses (not that this happens very often) I stayed in bed to do a lot of planning. It was 11:00 when I finally crawled out into daylight.

And as for my day of idleness, I spent it in a marathon tidying-up session. You can now walk round the garage where the Ebro is, the water room and the barn/workshop. I shifted tons of stuff and sorted out a whole lot more.

We’ll be able to find many more things this week when our adventures on the roof restart tomorrow morning.

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Saturday 25th JULY 2009 – I WAS GOING TO SHOW YOU ALL ….

kwikstage scaffolding plywood les guis virlet puy de dome france… a photo of the front of the house with the insulation on, but we didn’t have time to take a photo of it.

I was up early this morning and while waiting for Terry I did some tidying up in the barn. I have to record this as me tidying up in the barn is a pretty rare event,

First thing that Terry and I did after he arrived was to thread 4 strands of 6mm cable through a 25mm flexible conduit (for the two solar arrays that will be on the roof) and 2 strands of 6mm cable through some 25mm flexible conduit for the wind turbine that will be on the apex of the roof. Then we cut a channel through the wall, fastened the conduit in and cemented it down. So that’s the wiring organised.

Dave turned up some time through the performance and if two pairs of hands are a vast improvement on one, then three pairs of hands are an even greater improvement. We had the insulation on in no time and without stopping fastened down the battening and had half the plywood on by 17:00. That was some impressive work and we can be proud of what we accomplished today.

Tomorrow Terry is having a day off and taking Liz to the chainsaw-carving. We have to keep Liz happy as our supplies of food depend upon it and the food is too good to miss out on. I’m going to have one of those rare days where I’m going to sit around the house and do absolutely nothing at all. I think I’ve earned it.

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