Thursday and Friday 25th Sept

We woke with little idea of what we would do again on Thursday, i had to go fill the car in readiness for our early start on Friday morning but had little else on the agenda. After the usual morning i phoned David and said we would pop in on our way back from town and ant and i headed out. We spent a pleasant hour or so with David and Mark, we arranged for David to come with us the next day as he needed new glasses and they are terribly expensive here. We headed home and had a do little day, ant read and i messed about with bits and pieces. Pizza for dinner then an early night, i went upstairs and read at about nine and ant came up an hour later, we set the alarm for three and tried to get to sleep. By Twelve in the evening i realized i was not likely to get to sleep so left our bed and went into a different room, read some more then fell asleep about half an hour later.
On Friday we were up at three, David left a message to say he didn't feel well enough to come with us, so i phoned him back to say it was not a problem. We headed off three thirty and got to Heathrow by six thirty, not bad timing really, the notorious M25 was busy but moving swiftly. I dropped ant off then headed back and made it back to Folkestown by seven thirty. I did a long shop at Tesco's, the checkout guy must have thought we had a pack of dogs as my trolley was laden with dog food, it is cheaper and better in the uk. Then i headed to the bank and sorted out a money transfer, this procedure is normally done by the unfriendliest bank teller in the world and takes for ever but this time i got lucky and had a nice woman so it didn't matter that it took so long.
After the bank i headed back to the euro tunnel and got an earlier train back to France, the car in front of me was full of screaming kids, as per usual, so i put the cd player on in the car, something i normally don't like to do in case it drains the battery. I got back to the house by one in the afternoon, released the hounds, poor things had been in all that time, but they did not make a mess so i was very pleased with them. There in the hall was the chronopost envelope i had handed over to the passport guy in Paris, inside of which was my lovely new Aussie passport, and very fancy it is too, an epassport, with a special page that will let me go through the automatic immigration thingies, and each page has a different Aussie picture on it, animals, birds, scenery and that kind of thing. I looked at it for a while, i don't think my uk passport ever got the same attention, but this one is special , and valuable, and bloody expensive.
I had an easy going afternoon, did the farm, messed about on line, watched some tv, had a nice bit of lamb for dinner then an evening of tv , nothing special, then went to bed about ten thirty and read for the shortest time before going to sleep.