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Thursday 15th April 2010 – Tonight’s image …

ford cortina mark 5 gardening raised beds les guis virlet puy de dome france… is another aerial shot, and you can see what I have been doing today. I’ve lengthened the path down in front of the raised beds and filled the base with rubble. And then I’ve filled in the path between the new large bed and the two other beds just below it.

I’ve also done the path between the megacloche and the raised bed in front of it. Those two paths have been made of rubble with a layer of slate on top.

The piles of rubble on the ground floor inside the house are getting smaller and smaller and that is real progress. In certain places you can even see the floor now!

But I’m well-impressed with all of this. I started at the beginning of March so it’s all taken a mere six weeks to accomplish. It’s hard to believe that back in early March it was all looking like this.

Moving the chassis of the Citroen 2CV I found another adder. And again I moved my hand before it could react. Grahame thinks that they must be slow worms, but certainly not. I listened closely to it and it was definitely going “two plus two equals four – three plus three equals six”.

And that reminds me “groan” … ed of the mother who rang up the school to speak to her son’s teacher.
“What kind of maths is this that you are teaching little Johnny? He’s been sitting here last night saying things like ‘two plus two; the sonofabitch is four – three plus three; the sonofabitch is six’ et cetera”
“Well, I don’t know where he’s learning words like that” replied the teacher “but I’ve been trying to get him to say ‘the sum of which is …'”.

Sunday 11th April 2010 – What a good weekend …

… for the footy.

Last night, Pionsat’s 3rd XI lost 6-1 to Manzat. Not very impressive you might think but Manzat are top of the league by a country mile and beat one of the other teams in the division 14-1 the other day, and they have recorded several wins where they have scored in double figures. 6-1 is a good result.

fcpsh fc pionsat st hilaire st gervais d'auvergne puy de dome ligue football league franceAt 13:00 the 1st XI travelled down the road to take on hated local rivals St Gervais d’Auvergne and defeated them comfortably 2-0 and that in itself is astonishing (here is Nico scoring the team’s – and his – first of the two).

Even more surprising is that they played the latter part of the match with just 10 men. but even so they never really looked in any serious danger

fcpsh fc pionsat st hilaire charensat puy de dome ligue football league franceThat match finished at 14:45 and just 15kms away the 2nd XI were playing against Charensat – kickoff 15:00 so I had a hectic drive through the lanes.

Now there’s a goalkeeping crisis again at Pionsat as they currently have two keepers out injured and Philippe had been called out of retirement to keep goal for the 2nd XI. But he hadn’t turned up and with no other volunteer Christophe was “persuaded” to go between the posts.

fcpsh fc pionsat st hilaire charensat puy de dome ligue football league franceNow he’s the first to admit that he’s no keeper and he let in two goals that maybe some other keeper might have kept out. But he made up for that by having excellent positional sense, excellent timing, quick reactions and a good deal of bravery.

He can be quite pleased with what he accomplished today especially as up at the other end Pionsat scored three times to win the match! Well done Christophe!

After that I went round to see Liz and Terry but they were out. Simon was there doing some plastering so we had a good chat and then I came home. I was sorry to have missed them as I had had need of Liz, in her role as the “Auvergne Snake Murderer”, this morning. Moving a pile of damp and rotting wood I put my hand about half an inch away from a viper. Luckily my reactions were quicker than his!