Friday, March 21, 2025

More rain

Our plan was simple one today which was to go and so some light shopping at the local Mall but during the morning the rain was very bad and with very strong winds so we decided to forgo shopping at least for the moment.

Noel chased up some emails and talked to a couple of colleagues and in the meantime the rain had stopped and in a short time the roads were quite dry and so we headed off to the local mall. We had hoped that parking would be easy but it was packed again perhaps because it was lunchtime eith all th local workers flooding in to for lunch. Eventually after touring the car park we were lucky enough to spot someone leaving  and waited for them to go and finally we were parked and I still cannot belive it we were right next to the supermarket, in fact less than ten yards away.


The supermarket was very busy with people lining up for their takeaways etc and so we did the rest of the shopping and headed off home for a lunch of cheese and baguette sitting on the balcony as the rain was till holding off but it is not warm. In the afternoon we read and did iittle chares around the house. It was strange that late morning Jennifer asked I wonder when they come to service the room and it must have been less than two minutes later there was a knock on the door and two staff came in and changed the bedding and towels and a general clean up all round.

For dinner tonight we had some Costco salmon pieces with boiled rice with broccoli and some more wine, naughty before Noel started to watch the England vs Albania game. I was not convinced by the teams performance although they totally dominated the Albanian team but it was all to slow build up and the Albian defence new exactly where the next ball would be played and covered it. Gosh, If I was in charge I would give them all a kick up the backside  and move the ball a lot faster. We then watched plank of the week, one of our favourite programs and got infuriated when you hear that more than one million refugees are on benefits and to top it off you can cheat your way to n all expenses paid for car. The final straw was the speaker getting the taxpayer to cover the cost of his painted portrait to the cost of £ 50K. This bloody country has gone to the dogs, thanks to both current leading parties.