A bit of a rest

The last few days have seen me taking it real easy... In fact I haven't been near the barn for 3 days and I must admit it feels strange. The reason is simple really. Andy or Drewster as he is known on the motorcycle forum planned a 1 night stop over on the 17th but stayed 3 nights - and I felt it would be damn right rude if I didn't take him down some of the twisties near here and show him the scenic route to Oradour-Sur-Glane (the reason he was here of course) - so I had 2 days glorious riding 1st on the FJR and then on the R111.

on the road from Payrat Le Chateau to St Leonard Noblat

Back gate to Oradour-Sur-Glane

The A89 Viaduct viewed from Tulle

Drewster Headed for Montipllier

We also managed to do some shopping for bits and pieces, shelves, door lock, Electric socket face plates and some floor mats which are all fitted or assembled and in place.

Wendy booked us a Doctors appointment for yesterday which was quite entertaining - our Dr is a lady who speaks very good english but can confuse her words enough to entertain us both, it cost us 44 euros for the visit but and now we have to work out how we register on the French Health system so we can have some of it refunded.... We are entitled to the 1st two years here (2.5 years but we have already been her .5) with the NHS paying our costs but after that we will need insurance as the French have recently changed their ruling on forigners using their health system for free, Brown should take a leaf from their book...

We also registered RidersRest.Net as a bonifide Chambre D'Hote which means we can legaly do B&B for up to 15 people at a time... Saves us getting into trouble once all the bikes start turning up doing a ton-up down the D16.

Wendy is as I type painting the bathrooms in the barn, and I am computing well surfing and stuff, it is also my turn to make the brews and the egg banjo's something Wendy usually does...

The weather really cannot make its mind up as we have been alternating between Snow blizzards, blazing sunshine, Hailstone and torrential rain - and that was just today... so much for global warming.

Time for bed said Zebedee

You guest it (yes it is spelt wrong but then there in lies the pun)... We have put up the bunkbeds and aranged them in the bunkroom - needless to say we are pleased as they are very sturdy (they are going to need to be) and they are 3 foot wide so will be a comfortable sleep, also the matresses will fit. So it is all coming together.

Wendy has started to paint the bathrooms and has a coat of white on the 1st one, hard going as they are much smaller than the barn or hall and they have flat ceilings...

For those of you who have noticed the generally dirty and falling to bits trousers I have worn throughout the telling of this blog, I can report that they have been given a decent funeral today and we shared a few memories whilst they were cremated, well it was getting cold around the nether regions and hopefully I have seen the last of painting for a while (till christmas I suspect). Still they lasted 6 months solid (and in the end they were).