Warm and sunny with occasional showers. Mike went to buy a loaf before going on the moped to collect the car from Valence. Gave him a hand to get the bike off the roof down the plank. While he was away I cleaned the roof off (again) as there was tree debris and masses of insects (loads of grey froghoppers and little scale bugs) and sticky sap all over it. The French woman on Mongenster, a little Luxe moored opposite, had just finished cleaning her boat down using a hosepipe. Mike had said quite loudly that there were signs on the water taps in the port that drinking water must not be used for washing boats! I had used canal water with bucket and string. It started to rain before I’d finished but I carried on to get all the mess off. Mike called at 1.00 p.m. to say he was at Valence and was setting off in the car. He said Roy had told him that Shebah-Mike had gone off on his holidays with his family on board; the couple who owned the yacht we moored next to had come to their boat, took the sheets off it and the woman got stung as there were wasps on the boat so they’d gone away again; the people who owned the cruiser Cathy had also been and taken their boat out – they went up to Moissac and out on to the Tarn without a chart, got stuck on some rocks and had to call the pompiers and divers out! We missed all the fun! Our space had been taken by a wide beamed narrowboat owned by Belgians, who had left their boat and gone on holiday and the Swiss couple who had the little Luxe Bon Aventure had moved it into the gap next to Charles’s pénichette and gone home. We had an afternoon siesta. Mike mixed up some acid solution to decalcify the loo pipes as the cap for the tank was accessible while the moped was off the roof. We left it to fizz. (10% HCl solution and it effervesced. Ed ). Once it had done its job we put the bike back on the roof. We watched the BBC news, still rumblings in Georgia as the Russians basically told the USA to mind their own business.
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