What are you up to today?

[Doug]

Copper has been getting more and more expensive for years [mention]Char[/mention] the main reason why I went for plastic in my last two properties, but thats now a forbidden word.

[Blaze]

[mention]Doug[/mention] We normally have our annual repas in a salle de fêtes, but everyone agreed it was so much nicer and more convivial eating outside with none of the sanitary constraints.
[mention]Pathca[/mention] It was great fun but we did get 5 minutes of drizzle during our apéro but fortunately it cleared up !

[Spardo]

Supermarket day for this afternoon, or at least it should be, but tomorrow we are going down to the Lot for a special visit and I decided to calculate and print out my route as usual.

It should have been straightforward, 95% of the route I have done many times but this time, as the destination was in the middle of nowhere I started anew. The first route became unbelievably complicated with the final roads little more than tracks. So I started again, but the same thing happened. Finally I did the longer but more obvious route which gets me there with hardly a glance at the directions. That done, I finally thought, right time for my swim and then feed the dog.

It was only as I was descending into the water at 6pm that the thought struck me 'oh shit, I haven't been to the supermarket'

It'll have to wait until Thursday now, Jules had to have some extra croquettes, no sardines or chicken. That is one thing I calculated accurately.

[Doug]

Gardening, what else is there? Er um like taking the odd rest.
When you have nearly a hectar of it.

[Char]

Copper has been getting more and more expensive for years @Char the main reason why I went for plastic in my last two properties, but thats now a forbidden word.

I know the price of copper fluctuates and obviously things get more expensive as time goes by. But, It was 14 euros a 4 metre length a couple of months ago - I don't know how else to explain a six euro rise but to think that they lost money during the covid shutdown and are trying to recoup their losses.


Any way back on topic;

We're fixing radiators back onto the walls and reworking out how to run the pipes more efficiently. Can't do anything in our less than an acre garden because it's r........- yes you've guessed it.

[Doug]

Know how you feel [mention]Char[/mention] plumbing wise, on buying this place I upgraded the heating which had been installed by a cowboy.
In doing so I took out half of the pipework as all of the runs were very long, sometimes with a rad on opposite sides of a wall, pipes were taken down and up from the loft space on both sides.installed thermostat rad valves.
The loft was a maze of surplus tubing. Made the heating much more efficient.
Then look at the way petrol and diesel is going up.

[Doug]

Today its a day off.
so shopping.

[Spardo]

Running around after a very active, but lovable, new arrival. More later when I have time to draw breath.

[Blaze]

[mention]Spardo[/mention] Look forward to seeing the piccies
Have you heard how Her Grace is doing ?

[Chappers51]

Washing, washing and more washing as my nephew and his family left at 7am.