We arrived here yesterday just after 1p.m. to a wet and windy Toul (much as we left it!) but managed to unload the car between showers. We usually buy plants in France for the deck but this time decided on bringing them from home - that was quite fun when they decided to search us at the Chunnel port!! 'Ooh, you have a garden sir!' Hmm......yes we do!!Although there is allegedly wifi here it doesn't work even though we are adjacent to the Capitainerie so Skip needed to go and sort out his French bank account in order to resuscitate his Orange SIM card. This he did and even came back with a huge pizza for our supper......Crew too tired to cook!! Watched TV and bed.
Looking at the long term weather forecast it doesn't look as if we will get away before Friday as we have some long, hard lock days ahead of us and doing that in the rain is not an attractive prospect! So a few more jobs in order to get shipshape and a call to the nearby engineer to investigate our heating problem. He arrived around midday, as promised (he is English!) and agreed with Crew that the thermostat is the problem. So he went off to source a new thermostat and came back around 5 p.m., installed it and......hey presto! We have heating at last!! Crew had woken up with a pain in her neck which, unfortunately worsened throughout the day so cooking dinner was somewhat of a trial! The thought of all the ascending locks in the near future didn't appeal much either!! Hopefully it will improve tomorrow. Another lazy evening in front of the TV and bed.
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