Boy, was it grey and miserable this morning, and it rained a little overnight but anyway after a light breakfast it was time to do some shopping in Gramat and it rained most of the way there. Well after about one hour shopping we came outside and it it had stopped raining and the sun was shining and it looked like that a nice 'rest of the day' was on its way.
Well we got back to the site in time for lunch and then Noel walked down to the bar to get a Wifi signal. The trouble is that on the way down to the bar you bump in to people either walking or sitting by their caravans and/or motor homes passing the time of the day and willing to talk and so this simple walk of about ten minutes can take upwards of forty minutes just to get there,let alone get back. This morning conversation's discussed yesterdays Formula One Grand Prix where Ferrari ordered Massa to slow down to allow Alonso to pass him to a very long discussion with the elderley couple who have a Ssangyong Rexton 4x4 which is something we looked at before buying the Land Cruiser. He is delighted with the vehicle which is basically a Mercedes with Ssangyong badge. It would also appear that Ssangyong also make diesel engines for Mercedes in Korea and then ship them to Germany for inclusion in Mercedes badged cars. However when discussing yesterday's activities this elderly couple informed me that having seen in the local village Carlucet huge preparations for an obviously important function they had decided to investigate. Apparently every ten years the village gets together to take a large group photograph of all the village residents. Anyway as they had also illegally attended Saturday night function visiting the party which included a medium size but a very out of tune orchestra and where most people spent the evening dancing for hours without ever visiting the Bar and so they joined in, at the bar mostly, and had a good time. So anyway on Sunday they went down to see the photograph being taken and were pretty much forced to take part and although they kept on saying we are English nobody seemed to be the least bit concerned until after the photograph had been taken and the photographer went home by which time some of the locals wanted to know which house they had bought to qualify them for the group village photo.
So being honest they explained that they were staying at the caravan site up the road and this caused a little concern with the village elders, as now they had a big village photo with interlopers and this was the first time this had happened, and what to do now as not only had the photographer gone home but so had most of the villagers and so there was no chance to take another photograph. Well they continued drinking at the bar for another little while when the local heads approached the couple to say that this position was not correct and must be rectified for it to be a genuine photo and so to make it a sort of 'correct' photo they had agreed that they could purchase a small part of the local village green for one euro and if they paid up there and then they would be considered as residents and so one euro exchanged hands and everybody was happy. Great story but on the first part is true and the rest (in italics) comes from time on your hands when you have pretty much nothing else to write about.
Tonight was a fish called 'Julienne' nt Wanda which was well supported by some oven chips and vegetables and only slightly tinged with some chardonnay.
We now have new neighbours who arrived yesterday with a big Audi Q7 and a spanking brand new Bessacar Twin Axle Caravan which must have cost £25K or thereabouts and guess what they are both teachers and so indirectly being a Taxpayer and they, being Government Servants, that actually Jennifer and I must have paid or contributed to their car and van through taxation and therefore what really nice people we must be when their outfit cost more than ours, and they have a much better inflation proof pension then us. Oh the way of the world.
I also noticed today that Tony Haywood will soon to be the ex CEO of BP or as the Americans call it 'The BRITISH PETROLEOM COMPANY' and no doubt will get a poor settelemt of about £ 1.2 million plus a £10.5 million pension fund plus allowed to keep his £ 2.7 million BP shares. Noel where exactly did you go wrong???
