1. ‘Anyone who can’t understand maths can’t be fully human’. A ludicrous quote - clearly made up by ‘Asimo’ Andrews himself and making sense only to someone working with confused circuitry.
2. My, what can only be described as delicious, almond tart of Friday night was neither a ‘pastry club sandwich’ nor a ‘pie’…and if either of the offending commentators had seen what it looked like only an hour before they’d have been as impressed as I was with the way it turned out.
3. I don’t think Mel has had enough praise for the lasagne she made either which the kids went on about all day after…..or Kevin’s tortilla which Al kept mentioning. In fact well done to us all……!

Matt’s been running all over the place today as per usual. One of his outings involved taking some details of a ground floor flat in Chalus to the mairie in Dournazac in the hope of luring Bobby Sands ( Al has changed his name from ‘fatlad’ which used to be his more apt moniker) out of his house and into one with ‘facilities’. Matt went there with the maire the other day to have a word as we have renters in the adjoining house and she told him that shitting in a bucket and throwing it out on to the grass just isn’t acceptable in this day and age. Matt offered to put a bathroom into the bread oven which adjoins his house and connect him to our septic tank but he said that he was going anyway and couldn’t wait to get out of Dournazac. It transpired that that has been his mantra for many years, but without actually making a move away from his constantly bubbling chip pan, at some point, it’s going to be a problem. Anyway we’ll see how that pans out…or ‘bed pans out’ ! ….as, hopefully, the case may be.

I went to the new build in Champsac to re –commence decorating there. We’ve more or less left it, since Marcus did a fantastic job of fitting the kitchen a couple of months ago, in order to get Gouhaut back on track and try and finish ours but now that it’s only a bit of painting away from being rented out it seems ludicrous not to get on with it. So if anyone’s looking for a cheap rental property for xmas or after don’t hesitate to get in contact …we’re desperately in need of a deadline if we’re ever going to get finished.

I was going to put on the video I took of Matt and Al water divining the other day but it won’t load up more than 20% - of over 6 minutes of footage! How long? I think there may be some editorial overriding going on at computer level.