Football isn't everyone's cup of tea ...

... and as we were all staggering off towards the pie hut at half-time today I couldn't resist taking this pic of a Biollet St.Maurice supporter overcome by the pace of the game.

0-0 it was although Pionsat had one or two chances to take the lead. But I must admit I've seen more exciting games than this one.

But the young lady fast asleep by the touchline and the blue sky will give you some idea of the weather today. Summer seems to be back - and about time too. I woke up at 09:57 to the sun streaming in through my windows here. It looked beautiful and I couldn't resist thinking to myself that it was so nice that someone was bound to spoil it. And right on cue the phone rang. Bernard, the football club chairman, wanted to tell me that his son (he who has the digger) wanted to talk to me and could he come round.

So I hauled myself out of bed to wait for him. I asked Bernard a while back if he knew of someone with a digger who can dig out where I want to park Caliburn and he recommended his son. But he was stuck on a chantier in all of this bad weather. It now seems that they've been able to work and it may well be that by Friday they'll be finished. So he came to see the job and reckons he'll ring me on Friday or Saturday to tell me when he can start.

I told him about Simon's job and he's keen to do that too. And by the purest coincidence it seems that where Simon is living is the old workshop of Bernard's uncle and Bernard was born in the house just next to Simon's.

This world is getting far too small for me.