Today has been a repeat of yesterday, and it's been lovely to relax, do lots of reading, soak up the sun and cool off in the pool when we get too hot. The groceries we bought on Monday are doing us well for lunches and dinners, but we have decided to venture out tomorrow for lunch and maybe have something different. Although we love salad, we are getting a little fed up with it now!
Sophie had the rest of the pizza for lunch, and I boiled three eggs to have for lunch and to add to the salad to eke it out a bit. Unfortunately, without Keith around, I always find it difficult to get the eggs right, and I had difficulty peeling them... Next time, we'll add them to boiling water and let them stand in ice-cold water for a while before attempting to peel them. They were a complete mess!
In the afternoon, while floating about in the pool, Sophie said she had spotted something in one of the filters. It looked like a dead animal... When she said this, I peered in as well, and at first I thought it was a snake, because of the speckled brick behind the filter. I nearly took off to the other end of the pool! It turned out to be a very dead baby rat, so we scooped it out with a fly swatter and threw it onto the grass. No doubt our resident magpie will make use of it!
The other excitement today was the appearance of a car driving along the track behind our house. We have never seen anything other than a tractor on this track, which eventually leads to the village. The car stopped opposite our house, so we stood at the kitchen window watching it! It was probably a poor person who was lost, but the only other cars we see on the tiny road opposite the house are our neighbour's or the postman's.
At about 4:00pm, we retreated inside for naps and then lovely showers. I checked the weather again and discovered we have an Amber Warning for heat here:
This was a little alarming! We had decided to stay at the house on Sunday and Monday, but it now looks like we'll have to lie low on Tuesday and Wednesday as well, which is annoying. We would like to visit Périgueux and explore more villages in the area, especially the bastide villages.
After dinner of cold meats and salad eaten outside, we watched two episodes of a Netflix documentary about Michael Jackson's trial in 2005. We both agreed that he was seriously weird and very disturbing.
Before bed, we sat with our feet in the pool and watched the bats fly low over our heads. A lovely end to a very relaxing day!
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