... in the shops in Montlucon. Easily €600 reckon. And poor Caliburn creaked and groaned on the way home under the weight of 50 breeze blocks, loads of pine boards to do my wardrobe ( and why is it that a 300mm pine board costs €5.75 yet a 600mm pine board costs ... errrr ... €12.15?), tons more insulation, a load of wire and trunking and (says he, hoping it does the job) a new wheel for his wheelbarrow. Yes, forget your €15:00 in some shops and your €17.95 on the tool vans that come by, how about a Brico Depot special at €8:75? Much more like my kind of price.
But I had lots of time to spend all of this money as I was up and about at some ridiculous hour and was actually camped outside the door of the new Aldi in Montlucon before its 09:00 opening time. And that's a change isn't it? Normally I struggle to make my kitchen by 09:00!
And it was a goreous day to be out as well. Not quite your Alpine winter day but as close as we can get and the solar panels here on the house racked up about 180 amp-hours of charge. That was quite welcome too. We've been struggling for a decent charge for the last few weeks and I've been on something of an economy drive as far as the electrical energy goes.
On the way home I managed to fit in a visit to the swimming pool at Neris-les-Bains. I didn't stay long as it was perishing in there but I managed a decent soak and a good warm (not hot, unfortunately) shower so I feel all clean for a change - at least on the outside.
Tomorrow I'm told (for at Auchan I bumped into Michel from the footy club) that there might be some footy - Pionsat's 2nd XI have a match at St Maurice and it might even be on - so I might even have an afternoon out. I'm missing the footy. What with this weather there has been none for ages.
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