Day 4 – Hot hot hot and dinner with friends

The temperature is 30C and unbelievably hot.  We’re still on a do-as-little-as-possible because we CBA’d!   We walked into the village and found Carrefour – bit better than our own ‘Express version and a very good selection of local wines.   We had a chat with the butcher who told us which were the local wines – yes I did mean the butcher.  Because this evening we’ve been invited to dinner with Robert’s (my son) teacher from his secondary school – Carolyn.   

Caz and her husband Chris live in Brighton but have recently bought the most amazing house.   The house came full of furniture and was just as the previous owner had left it; full of photos, birth/death certificates, costumes, hats (in the most gorgeous period hat boxes), paintings, tapestries – it was like going back in time and I could have spent hours just exploring.   Caz cooked a lovely dinner which we ate on the patio and then all spent many hours drinking and chatting – really fab evening.

Day 5 – even hotter today 31C

The heat has made us so lazy, but as we live such hectic busy lives it really is nice to just not do anything at all, except sit and watch the World go by.   There is no escape from the sun here so in the end we had to put up some more shade – trailer trash?   But it worked!   Tonight we went into the village for dinner but everywhere was shut because of the village fete, so steak sandwich and frites it was!   There was some good music and plenty of drinking but we opted for breaking open a bottle of bubbly under the stars and it’s still 25C.

The village square ready for tonight's festivities

And so, not too much to report at the moment as we really are doing as little as possible!  Just time for a quick (and pretty awful) selfie!