Monday 28th Sept

Up about nine this morning, i checked everything online then made a start on the house work, got the kitchen and downstairs bathrooms cleaned, and the hall, it gets very hairy from the dogs. I had a short break to harvest and replant the farm then started on the living room and dining room. Ant phoned to say he had landed, i asked him to pick up a couple of bottles of new world wine at duty free. I got the bedrooms done then tackled the en suite and that was the house finished. Ant phoned to confirm he was on the flight to Paris, so i had an hour to kill before heading out, i had some lunch, watched a little tv then got ready for the off.
The journey down to Paris was fairly straight forward and ant was waiting for me when i arrived, a nice change, so we loaded him into the car and headed back. He had bought three bottles for aussie reds so that would make the evening swing. The motorway seemed to be full of ignorant idiots boxing people in behind lorries so the air was blue all the way back up to Arras, but we made it home in decent time. We both had baths, i watched a new episode of the Simpsons again and then sorted out dinner, sausages with mashed potato and baked beans, a real stodgy delight for ant, and i think he really enjoyed it.
We settled in to a night of relaxation in front of the tv with a few glasses of wine, the Aussie reds are so much easier to drink than french, younger and fruitier, and it is difficult to buy them here so it was a nice change, and i really enjoyed the Aussie cab sav. We watched a couple of programs about design on bbc4 then Ross Noble, a north eastern comic doing a trip across Australia, which had far to much Noble and not enough Australia for my liking. After this we went to bed, poor ant was hanging on by a thread at this point but he can have a nice long sleep in in the morning.