Friday 22nd Jan

Up at nine thirty and online with a coffee, had a chat to mum on skype and ant came down and chatted too, did the blog and the cafe then turned the computer off. I set to clearing the rubbish out of my larder cupboard and had a chat to Marion on the phone, then ant and i had a bit of lunch. After lunch we headed to the tip and dumped a load of rubbish then headed in to Hesdin, as we were going in the engine started to over heat, the warning light came on and i started to panic, we were ok, got in to Hesdin and left it to cool for half an hour. We went to buy light bulbs from Mr Bricolage then anti freeze. When we got back to the car it was completely out of anti freeze so i topped it up and then it was ok. We went to get some petrol and then dropped in to Lidl to see if we could find a dehumidifier for the downstairs bathroom, there were none so we bought three bottles of wine instead.
When we got back i got the steam cleaner out and gave the bathroom a good going over, the difference was quite noticeable, a lot more light bouncing round the room due to the clean tiles. Then i set to on the kitchen, while ant was doing the living room, i made us some dinner, a pasta bake, then we settled down to an evening of wine and chat. We started the evening on a rosè which was very drinkable but a little on the sweet side, then moved through a Pinochet, again very drinkable, to a cab sav, all three just 1.99 euros, almost un heard of for a drinkable wine here, and they are new worlds so they dont have the same weight as the french, personally i prefer something a little lighter. Needles to say we had a good evening, we listened to ant's new favorite radio station, playbill radio, on the internet radio, it plays all the great hits from the musicals, and sat and chatted until we were ready to fall in to bed.