Lazy daze

We were all very happy we didn’t have to bounce out of bed for any particular reason this morning so we just took our time. Jess and I still got on with some work, Ruby and Allegra were sleeping in the front room so I couldn’t even go and get myself a coffee because I didn’t want to wake them. We heard some stirring after a while and as my caffeine withdrawals were kicking in by then, at that point I could wait no longer and did bounce out of bed. I got some breakfast sorted out for Jess and then turned my attention to the coffee machine. In my opinion, since these will often be being operated by people suffering from the aforementioned withdrawals, they should be as easy to operate as possible. This one wasn’t. I couldn’t get the water section out to start with and then I couldn’t work out how to get the section where the capsule goes open. Eventually I did get these two issues resolved but it took a while. There is one button on the machine and I pressed it from all different angles and I wasn’t getting any response, by this stage I was still staying calm but it was getting more difficult, then I came up with the genius idea to see if plugging it in would help at all. It did and it didn’t. On the one hand, some lights came on, on the other, pushing that one button wasn’t having any effect. Somehow I was still maintaining my equilibrium. I then scanned the QR code on the machine to see if that would help, only if I wanted to buy a new model apparently. Google is my friend, I thought to myself, but no apparently not, it had way too many solutions, none of which were actually relevant to me. I think by this point I may have been huffing in frustration because Jess got out of bed, came and looked at the machine, pushed the button and glorious black liquid gold came trickling into my mug. My heroine.
A bit more work was on the cards after that, which I was fine with because I had had some coffee. Then it was time to get some lunch, so we popped up to the bakery and picked up some variations of cheese pie and also a custard pie. We had our lunch and then Jess had to bang her head against wall for a while trying to deal with French bureaucracy, in this case it was trying to sort out Lily and Ruby’s bourse (uni grant) for next year. All the girls decided to go to the beach and Lily did her helpful parenting impression, making sure they all put suncream on and took their hats. Jess and I followed about 20 minutes later and found them easily enough, there was literally no one else there. This is crazy when you consider the setting, in most other European countries a beach like this would be absolutely mobbed. It is very nice to be in a place that is not swarming with (other) tourists. We had a bit of swim, the water was cool in spots and warm in others which was very nice.
We headed home for a while and then were out for a dinner to one of the tavernas in the village, it was right on the ocean with a view of the setting sun. Lily had a plate of chips as part of her meal and asked for some tomato sauce. The owner dude came back quickly with a bottle and proceeded to shake it for all he was worth and managed to get enough sauce for about two chips out. It seems like that was the last sauce in the establishment as he gave an apologetic shrug. The food was very tasty, although it was no lemon pesto pasta.
We came home to watch the semifinal of the Women’s Euro 25, go England. As I sat here watching and composing this blog a biscuit literally landed in my lap, like some sort of gift from above. It did not last long.Read more