Wednesday 1st March

What has happened to Eymet sunshine?  Gone, disparru…it is raining and wet and cold and feels exactly like England.  It is Tuesday morning and I am in the Café and the electricity has just gone off….wonderful.  Here in France the electricity is remarkably flakey anyway.  At the moment we are having new water and sewers put in, also our road is being redesigned, we have had weeks of bulldozers and JCBs and huge holes appearing right outside the Café.  Remarkably customers have still found us, but looking outside the window it looks a bit like Syria.  But with rain.

Hopefully this is just a passing storm and will be over soon.  Electricity is back on….hooray – but for how long is anyone’s guess.  Internet is barely working either.  This is exactly the sort of day to hunker down on the sofa with a nice eiderdown and drink coffee and watch meaningless but comforting daytime telly.  Instead it was trudging out with the dogs and then walking here with a bag full of supplies.  Marie-Christine has her French class today, and despite the dreek weather we will probably have a few stragglers, who for some bizarre reason are in town and will want coffee.

Hope the weather is better in England, I am back on Thursday.