… this evening that I have never seen before.<\/p>\n
I was at St Eloy-les-Mines watching Nord Combraille play Beauregard-Vendon in the league cup, and halfway through the match the home supporters started to hurl abuse at the visiting linesman. <\/p>\n
The Miners’ captain ran across the field to his supporters and told them to “fermez la geule<\/i>” – or “shut your gobs”. And how I wish that more captains of more football clubs would take the initiative like that.<\/p>\n
It was an exciting match too – with 10 minutes to go Beauregard-Vendon were comfortably winning 3-1 but then the Miners scored a goal right out of nothing to bring it back to 3-2. <\/p>\n
Then, with the last kick of the match, they scored an equaliser from a corner.<\/p>\n
Extra-time followed, and the Miners ran rampant, winning 5-3, including as the 4th goal one of the best that I have ever seen at this level of football.<\/p>\n
That led to me doing something that I have never done before in all the time that I’ve been here. By the time the match had finished, what with extra time and everything, it was 10:45 and so I wouldn’t be home for another 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Far too late to cook tea, but the kebab house was still open and so I bought a large portion of chips to eat in Caliburn on the way home. <\/p>\n
No vinegar, of course, but they were pretty good chips and I’ll go there again if ever I’m out late at weekend.<\/p>\n
So what about today then? <\/p>\n
I nearly missed my shopping slot at Commentry today as well. But there was a good reason for this. <\/p>\n
Just as I was closing down to go to bed (at a comparatively early 02:30) I had a message to ring Rachel in Canada urgently. And so I did, and it turned out that at the garage in Centreville they had mislaid a box which included, inter alia<\/i>, my bank card that they keep for me. <\/p>\n
It’s surprising, if not amazing, that you can spend over 90 minutes talking to people whom you like, about a subject as simple as that (and it was all a false alarm anyway as they found it this morning)<\/p>\n
The result of that was that it was gone 04:00 when I finished and then I couldn’t sleep – still awake again at 05:30. and so it’s just as well that the guy up the road started up his chainsaw at 11:00 otherwise I’d still be asleep now.<\/p>\n
So what with one thing and another it was gone 14:00 when I set out for Commentry. One of the things that I needed to do was to buy even more tool handles as I’d broken one or two more during the week, and so I needed to strip out the old broken bits before I could go. <\/p>\n
At Mr Bricolage I managed to sort everything out (at a price) but the handle for the pickaxe. They didn’t have a wooden handle and so he sold me a fibre one.
\n“This is unbreakable” said the salesman
\n“Leave that to me” I replied. “I’ll see to that”.<\/p>\n
I also bought the bits I need to do some work for a client with a solar hot water system, and at LIDL they still had a couple of packets of those LED light strips and so I liberated them. <\/p>\n
Makes me wonder how many I might have liberated had I managed to make it there last week.<\/p>\n
No swimming baths though – far too late to go there, and so I came back here and crashed out for a couple of hours instead after my bad night.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I’m off to the Mont Dore – FC Pionsat St Hilaire are playing Briffons-Perpezat in the cup.<\/p>\n
