Wednesday 14th October

I got up about nine and left ant sleeping, came down and did some online stuff, then Marion phoned to say the roofer was in the office and was i available for him to come round this morning, of course. Camile the roofer arrived about thirty mins later so i had to get ant up, he had a look at the roof but could not see a problem so i had to take him up to the attic and show him the loose tile. He said there was nothing wrong with the tile it was just a bit loose, which i already knew, so he made the tile waterproof with silicon, fingers crossed this will solve the problem, he only charged us 15euros so it was a bit of a bargain. I decided it was my last chance to get the lawn mowed, as we had had a couple of dry days, so i set to mowing whilst ant got himself up and ready, the mowing was pretty heavy going, i should not have left it so long, but at least it is now done.
Once ant was ready we headed out to see Jackie and Tony, just a social call, they already had visitors so it was quite busy but we had a good time, played a game of ten pin bowling on their wii, which Tony won, he may have had a bit more practice than us!! We then headed down to Carrefour and did a little shopping then came home, there was a message from the people who own the holiday cottage saying they had my message and were expecting us at four thirty on Saturday, so that's a load off. I went back online and messed around with my new cafe on facebook, i sent ant an invitation to join, he doesn't normally have any truck with these things but got really in to it and could hardly be dragged off the computer, an ironic twist. I gave gran a call to see how she was, quite good by all accounts, and ant had a good long chat before we sat down with a beer to watch the film Milk, about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay political figure in the US, possibly world i am not sure.
I had read a book about his life some years ago and was quite intrigued, then the film came out and i had wanted to see it for some time. I heard on the radio on the way to Brussels that Arnold Schwarzenegger had decreed the birthday of Milk to be Harvey Milk day, such a turn around from the times he was actually in office. After watching it ant and i decided we would need to become more politically active on the gay rights stage, i used to march in the pride marches, and have never denied who i am but the placatory rights given to us by the uk government seem to have squashed any real search for equality, i know we now have civil partnerships and anti discrimination laws, but we still have a lot of homophobia in society.
Anyhoo, that's a bit of a rant for you, we headed up to bed after watching the dvd extra bits and had a much better nights sleep than the night before, now we are back in our room.