Bank Holiday Weekend

Back at La Rochelle Airport after the English Bank Holiday weekend, so its Tuesday morning and the airport is quite busy, with a Jet2 plane in already, so the challenge will be to get this one off the ground again before my Easyjet plane arrives, not something La Rochelle have a great reputation at doing, so we could end up with a traffic jam of 2 planes.

We had a nice long weekend together, I arrived on the lunchtime Easyjet flight from Gatwick so I was at home by 3:00pm. We were not very full this weekend which means we could do some things together, as I have said I was not going to do too much work. As we had guests coming on Saturday night I declared Saturday the work day of the weekend and got on with putting up the rest of joists we bought last month for the mezzanine floor in the garage. This does not follow my rule of completing one room at a time but I did not want to leave the joists outside for too long in the rain……

Fleur had her helping hat on and so she helped me mix the cement to fix the joists in place and level them up, which took rather longer than anticipated but by 3:00pm everything was in place, just as the guests arrived. So that will be ready for boarding ovcr later in the year. Next weekend it will be back to the granary bathroom to lay the floor so that I can begin insulating the roof and working out the layout of the bathroom so that we can start running the first fix of pipework. Since we have two bathrooms one above the other I must make sure we fix both bathrooms together, to ensure the pipe work ends up in the right place. But that’s me getting ahead of myself once again lets’ get the floor down and insulation in first.

After Saturday it was time for the weekend proper, and even though the weather was not fantastic we played mini golf on Sunday and went boating on the Charente on Monday, and in between played lots games, washed the cars, getting extremely wet in the process and even going out to dinner on Sunday evening, for an excellent curry with our friends and neighbours Steve & Lindsay. Steve made an excellent curry, and Lindsay made a really tasty summer fruit pudding, so we ate really really well. We also discovered a new game which will probably appear on Fleurs birthday or Christmas list soon. It was called Sequence and is allegedly quite addictive. Steve and Lindsay’s choice of music was interesting at times as we were treated to White Christmas and a couple of other unseasonal ditties, but all in all it was a great evening apart from the fact that being the 24^th of August we would expect to be eating outside, but it was so chilly we were forced to eat inside, another sign of the very strange and unseasonal weather we are having.