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Free Car Wash Time!

Blah blah blah, usual apologies for slow update. I think we’re in a parallel universe as I’m sure it’s only 3 weeks since my last update but the rest of the world has moved on nearly 4 months!

At this time of year the farmers are watering the maize almost continually, which means if you need your car washed, just drive along the road until you find a place where the sprinklers are soaking the road as well. Mind you, I’ve not tried stopping and shampooing the car, perhaps that would be a little too eccentric for the French!

Through the 'Car Wash'

Through the Car Wash

In early May we went to stay with friends Rob and June for a few days. There is some beautiful countryside in that area (Bergerac), we had a couple of days out driving around the local villages, very picturesque. The dogs generally behaved themselves, except when we went for a meal at a small restaurant. We parked the car in view of the restaurant so that the dogs could see us but that didn’t stop Daisy howling. I just pretended they were nothing to do with us and suggested their owners should be ashamed about leaving dogs in the car unattended!
Rob and June were going to come to stay with us for a couple of days but Jan had a tummy bug so we thought it best to postpone their visit. Luckily I didn’t catch whatever it was that Jan had, as I’m a man I’m obviously immune to such mundane ailments. Well until August, when I had a bad case of dysentery with E.coli complications. That was my initial diagnosis but it turned out to just be a bad case of diarrear direear direhere the shits.

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Me Again

Another 3 months have whizzed by since the last update, time seems to go quicker as you get older (miserable excuse number 42 for being late with an update)!

February was a wonderfully warm month, we got a lot of gardening done and we thought that summer had arrived early, unfortunately it hadn’t, March was a lot colder and wetter, bugger…….

Marc, Matthew, Debs and others went skiing to Lake Tahoe (in California) in February, their regular winter sports destination. While they were there, we got a phone call from Matt and Marc asking me to log onto a live webcam where we could see them all waving to us from a cafe at the start of one of the ski lifts. The wonders of modern technology!

Part of the reason for the crap weather in March was due to David and Pauline flying down to spend a few days with us, the sun shone for a few hours after they arrived and then stayed away until after they had left. It’s a job convincing people from the UK that Lascazeres is much sunnier than England!

Jan and Pauline

Jan and Pauline

This picture of Jan and Pauline by a well was taken at Bassoues. I thought it was a wishing well but when I threw some money in and made a wish, Jan didn’t turn into Cameron Diaz, so that was a waste of 5 cents, perhaps 10 cents would have been more effective!

Despite the weather we had a great time when David and Pauline were here, we went out and about around the local area and they treated us to a meal in Maubourguet one lunchtime. We played Ludo a couple of times in the evening, bloody hectic lives we live down here, we were going to play snakes and ladders as well but I thought the excitement would be too much for me! Anyway, Pauline cheats, or was it me, I can’t remember…….

David got tickets to see Portsmouth win through to something, FA cup final I think. Not sure who they are playing as football is not my favourite sport, poor David; he was confusing me with someone who gives a shit when he was talking enthusiastically about the final.

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