Hot and sunny again. Mike was up bright and early to take the car to the VNF yard and come back on the moped. Bill and I went to see the people in the Mairie - no one in, they only open afternoons, 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. - 5 p.m. on Fridays. We went back to the boat and I put the aluminium reflectors in the starboard side windows to try to reduce the heat in the cabin as it had been stiflingly hot the day before. A gang of heavy weight kids were playing rugby (sort of, more like all-in wrestling) on the grass by the car park, so I told Mike I was going to the Mairie at 2.00 p.m. and to keep an eye on the moped which was stood outside, unlocked, by the boat waiting to be hoisted up on to the roof. Bill and I went to the Mairie. Two young women beamed smiles but said they didn’t collect the money, someone would call for it. Then I mentioned that the electricity was off. Ah! The older one despatched the younger one to find Mr whatshisname to go and fix it. She said it was probably due to the fairground people who were putting up rides, etc, ready for the weekend - they’d probably cut it off somehow. OK, thanks. Later an elderly man came to search for the source of the problem while we were stowing the moped on the roof in the blazing afternoon sun. Mike was having trouble remembering how we covered the moped and tied it down, well it had been nearly nine months since we last did it! Half an hour later the old feller came and asked if the power was back on (he’d been back to the Mairie to trace the power line for the port), yes, it had just come on. The breaker in the school had dropped out! We thanked him and wished him a “bon weekend”! Bill found a dead snake, run over by the look of it – some sort of grass snake. I didn’t dare try to set the washer going again (it was full and ready to wash!)
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