… bad football matches in my time, but I was totally taken aback by the one that I saw this evening.<\/p>\n
Phone call at 19:00 to tell me that the floodlights at Pionsat hadn’t been fixed and so FC Pionsat St Hilaire’s game planned for this evening is to be played tomorrow afternoon instead. <\/p>\n
That had me at a loose end this evening and with no footy at Marcillat-en-Combraille, a quick glance at the scheduling told me that there was a Regional Elite game at St Gervais d’Auvergne where the home team was to play Orcines.<\/p>\n
I’d never seen a Regional Elite game and so I went for a wander down there, and to be quite honest I’m not sure that it was worth the effort. <\/p>\n
St Gervais were pretty dire and Orcines weren’t much better, even though they had a couple of veterans playing up front who had clearly done this kind of thing at a much higher level a few years ago, although these days their zimmer frames were something of a danger to the other players on the field.<\/p>\n
Add to that the fact that the St Gervais keeper was having a real off-day (he surely can’t play like that at this level each week, can he?) and a 3-0 victory for the visitors was almost a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n
After that I popped round to Liz and Terry’s where some ginger cake needed eating, and then back here.<\/p>\n
This morning though, I had to write the text for two radio shows. It’s getting all exciting with a new series of programmes, but it’s much more work than I ever imagined it to be. <\/p>\n
I popped into St Eloy-les-Mines for shopping, and excelled myself here. <\/p>\n
6 small shrubs that will (I hope) grow into a hedge at the back of the raised beds, 6 rose bushes to make a hedge just outside here, some rosemary and thyme plants and a couple of lavender bushes. I can’t believe that I’m buying things like this. <\/p>\n
It isn’t like me at all to buy flowers – I suppose that it is symbolic of how much I am becoming settled here.<\/p>\n
