For those of you concerned ...

about my physical welfare, I didn't have a solar shower today.

And it's my own fault anyway. Although this morning was slightly cloudy it didnt look too bad at all. I went into St eloy and did some shopping there and (just for a change spent a few bob too. And in the Carrefour they had trays of baby lettuce for €3.99, so I bought one. I was expecting about 10 or 12 but in fact there were 25 all told, and you can't leave that many in the tiny tray. And so I thoroughly watered one of the potato beds and planted them in there, thinking that I can plant the spuds around them and they will be long gone before I need to uproot the taties.

And of course, that was the cue for a torrential downpour as you might expect, and that was the summer over. I came up here with a coffee, crashed out, and am I going to have an uncomfortable night as I spilled a mug of coffee all over my bed settee as I keeled over and now it's all wet.

At the footy tonight there was just one match, the 1st XI against Montel Villosanges. And Pionsat won with a most bizarre goal. A beautiful ball over the top of the defence that set up a chase - two Pionsat attackers against two of the Chimps defenders. But the keeper got to it first, just outside his area, and he fairly whacked the ball as hard as he could - straight into the face of a Pionsat attacker. The ball rcocheted off his face, went back over the keeper's head and with one bounce it went straight into the net. Yes, you can tell that things are going Pionsat's way for a change when they can win matches by scoring goals like this.