… to rip up the bathroom floor today.<\/p>\n
In fact, I was considerably sidetracked.<\/p>\n
This morning though was pretty much more of the same. 11 pages of writing about the French laws of slander and libel for Radio Anglais – important for ex-pats due to a couple of high-profile court cases just recently concerning postings on social network sites;<\/p>\n
And you wouldn’t believe just how different is the law over here compared to the UK.<\/p>\n
Yesterday however when Rosemary was on the phone, she told me that the swimming baths at St Eloy-les-Mines had reopened after maintenance, and that one of the few times that they are open is Wednesdays at 13:30.<\/p>\n
And seeing as it’s been a good while since I’ve had a decent soaking, we agreed to meet up this afternoon and go for a swim.<\/p>\n
And so we did.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Flaming cold in there it was (although not as cold as that swimming baths in Qu\u00e9bec last May), but at just \u20ac1:88 a ticket, it was value for money and I had a really good scrub in the shower afterwards. <\/p>\n
I look almost human now. <\/p>\n
We went for a coffee and a chat afterwards, and then for a wander around a couple of the DiY places.<\/p>\n
That wasn’t all though. <\/p>\n
I’m nice and clean now, but my clothes weren’t. In fact my bedding walks off into the cupboard every morning under its own steam. Consequently, off I went to the laundrette and washed everything that I could lay my hands on.<\/p>\n
Yes, a nice clean me, nice clean clothes and nice clean bedding tonight. I won’t know myself, will I?<\/p>\n
But we did have a culinary disaster tonight. I made one of my mega-aubergine-and-kidney-bean-chili things tonight, to last me for three days, only to realise that I had forgotten to add the kidney beans. <\/p>\n
And then I dropped tonight’s portion on the floor in the verandah. Luckily that I had a few more helpings left over.<\/p>\n
But what a waste of food, hey?<\/p>\n
