Sunday 3rd August 2008

Grey morning, cooler; sun out later. Mike was up first at nine and went to get some bread. He tidied up all the tools, etc, off the front deck but still couldn’t find a 10mm spanner that had been on the back seat of the car. He fixed a crack in a big yellow funnel by melting the plastic edges together with his soldering iron and managed to burn his leg on it (matching the burn on his ankle from welding when we were on the dry dock). The couple on the boat next door went out at 11.30 a.m. and Mike thought they’d gone to eat in town and therefore would want to move their boat while the Grand Prix was on. Luckily, he was wrong they’d been out to buy edible stuff. Mike had to go and move our long green rope from behind the Canalous hire boat so that they could get out – at least now he could watch the Hungarian Grand Prix in peace. When the racing finished we went out for a ride in the car. Headed out on the scenic route (the weekly route to Carrefour in Agen Sud) but went off to Lectoure, into Condom and Eauze towards Pau, came back towards Auch on the N124, then north a short way and east cross country back to Lectoure and home. Mike added more to his car repairs list.