Saturday 13th October

Saturday 13th October
Today we decided to drive into Chatillon to check out Le bateaux.
Took a different route going through our village, with the roads taking us through the farms. We are always impressed with the landscape and expanse of the recently ploughed fields and how magnificently they are kept. Many shoots are now appearing from the recent plantings, having had a reasonable amount of rain and the temperatures now up to 20 deg, with sunshine, its no wonder everything has started to grow.
Went aboard le vermillion and checked that the power was still connected up. Pumped out some excess bilge water and checked for any rainwater that may have leaked into the cabins. All OK so we locked up and made our way to the Super U to buy some groceries and meat for the week. Couldn't help looking over to the laundry aisle and thinking of Marisa and her love of Ariel. I think I saw an even bigger box than the one she hugged.
Saturday morning and we found that Super U was very busy. In fact the most people we have ever seen inside and supermarket we have been into. It was well stocked and being a Saturday it was open without any ‘interruption’ in other words it didn’t close for the normal 2 hours at lunch as it does during the week.
It had turned out to be a beautiful warm day, so on returning home we had our lunch and then into the garden. We worked for a good 3 hours, weeding the gravel court yard, clearing the brick steps of moss and weeds, raking up all the fallen apples and clearing the vegetable garden of dead leaves and more weeds. When we had finished for the day we stood back and admired our handiwork and felt pretty pleased with ourselves as it definitely looked much better as a result of our efforts.
Still quite warm so there was no need to light the fire for the evening, however I brought quite a few logs in from the log stack so they could dry out in the house and be ready for when we needed them.
Settled down to watch England play France in the rugby, it was hard to swallow the obvious bias of the commentators and how England were playing, but as it was the ITV broadcast it was obvious it was going to be like that. So England are in the final against the winner of the game tomorrow night between Argentina and South Africa. If only England didn’t appear to gloat so much it would make it easier to support them! If they win the final I expect the Queen will have to Knight them all!
I’m sure that Paris will be full of celebrating Englishmen tonight.
Such a beautiful evening that in our dressing gowns we went outside to look at the stars and the Milky Way. Very impressive but still nowhere near as brilliant as the stars we saw when we were at Wilpena pound a few years ago.
The animal nightlife was all around us and there wasn’t another person within a kilometre of us as all our neighbours are away.
To bed for a goods night rest listening to the owls hooting and whatever else was out there.