Super Saturday!

Today has been relaxed and we didn't get up to much at all. I swear I saw that the weather was due to be mild and sunny today, but we've had a thick blanket of cloud all day, and it's been chilly. Sophie went to the gym first thing and took part in a yoga class, while Keith and I stayed at home and pootled about. Keith was feeling better, so that was a relief.

When Sophie came home, she made toasted cheese and ham sandwiches for an early lunch, and then made a start on some admin work she needed to do. It was boring, adult stuff that she hates! But needs must!

In the early afternoon, we drove to the recycling centre in Brixworth and offloaded a bag of old clothes, two small electrical appliances (one was the defunct travel iron that refused to work in L'Escla) and a big bag of garden rubbish. Nothing went into the landfill skip! Hooray! We had also walked around the estate earlier with Moon Bums and taken a small bag of stamps and old make-up to a neighbour who sends them off to generate money for charities. That was our good deed done for the day!

I did some more research on my family tree in the afternoon and found it enormously frustrating. I'm wondering whether I should continue with it, as not being able to find certain records leads to disappointment and annoyance! I'm not subscribed to Ancestry at the moment, as I paid for My Heritage when I did my DNA, but I'm finding it difficult to use the website. 

Sopihe and I played Scrabble in the evening, enjoyed some nibbles and opened the bottle of Dornfelder we bought at Biddenden. It was acceptable for an English wine, but it definitely lacked the depth of the southern Rhone wines we've become accustomed to.

Sophie made a delicious chicken salad for supper, and we watched the 2020 remake of Hitchcock's Rebecca. Sophie had just read the book and spent the whole evening shouting at the screen, saying it wasn't the same as the novel! It wasn't even the same as the 1938 film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine! Why do screenwriters have to alter the original so much?

We had polished off the Dornfelder over the course of the evening, so we opened a bottle of Sablet for one glass. However, it had a weird, plastic aroma, so we had to pour our glasses back into the bottle in the hope it would improve with a little air. Instead, I uncorked a Segurét (the next village), which was gorgeous and a whopping 15%! Wow!

Gomez was in a huff tonight as we were still downstairs watching the film until almost 10.30pm, and he wanted Sophie to go upstairs with him. He lay on the back of the sofa with his back to her, clearly in a mood!

I am in a mood...

Spider from Wednesday

It's beginning to look a lot like Halloween!