Saturday 01 August

An early morning this morning, up at eight in readiness for a walk with Marte at nine, we did the same walk as Friday but in reverse, and chatted away about all sorts of things, mainly in french, so it is doing good for both my language and body. Stopped over for a lemonade at her place then came home. I had decided to go to the British Legion Garden Party a try so headed off to that, with a quick detour to Hesdin and a chat with Marion and Maggie. The garden party was not up to much but i did buy three books, one of which was an aussie joke book, so i shall look forward to having a look through that, and a jar of green tomato chutney, which was moldy when i got it home. I treated myself to an 'English Tea' which was a little disappointing but not unpleasant, then decided i would head off, i had been there fifteen minutes. It was full of older English people that i had no desire to get to know. As i was about to leave i spotted Dave, the owner of Fen and Tally, i said hi then said i was off, perhaps a little rude but i had had enough.

I headed home via Carrefore, where i treated myself to some wine and some lamb for dinner, got home and went online. Another episode in the life of mum, as usual an interesting read, so i sent back an email, then i started to worry she would be offended i had called her a fag hag in it, since she had had a very close relationship with a gay man. I don't know whether fag hag is a positive term but in my mind it is a term of great affection as i have had some very close relationships with female friends during my life and am still very close to my first fag hag even though we hardly ever see each other these days. I moved on to looking into transportable homes, i remember seeing a tv show with Billy Connolly where he toured aus on a motor bike, and stopped at a place where you could buy these second hand homes and have them transported to where ever, just a big yard full of homes on stilts waiting to be bought. So i had a good look at second hand ones and new ones and it seems such a cheep way of getting a home, though i think there must be a twist some where.
After this i headed out and checked the rabbits, they were fine as usual, then headed back and set too on the dinner, roasted lamb, perhaps my favorite of all roasted meats, with a red wine sauce and roasted baby potatoes from the garden. I had also treated myself to one of the lovely little french cakes you can buy in the supermarket, for a treat later, actually it was two and i was going to save one for ant on Sunday but some how it got eaten, i will just have to make it up to him. Another night a front the telly, same as last week, Total Wipeout then Top Gear. Just the same as last week this got me ranting at the telly again, same formula, Clarkeson rates a new car, only twenty odd thousand pounds this week so well within the reach of your average person on the street, then a challenge, the only reason i watched it this week was because this was to be centered round classic cars. Unfortunately this ended up aggravating me even more, as May had a Citroen Ami, a highly acclaimed classic, distinctive, beautiful in its own way and mechanically forward thinking for the time, as per it was laughed at, ah well since it wasn't British or a sports car what can you expect. Then a film treat, V for Vendetta, i have this on dvd but decided to watch it again because it is a good film, and i enjoyed it immensely. So to bed, no reading tonight due to the bottle of wine i had sunk, on my own, which is unusual for me but it was Saturday night so why not. Ant is home on Sunday so its a day of cleaning again.

catch you soon