Skimming stones

Conor finally relinquishes the secret of how he learned to skim stones in one lesson... (Throw two, get two splashes, everyone cheers.)

The meeting at the Mairie was short but hopefully productive. The chap up there will come and inspect the site to satisfy himself that there is no purpose to a public road, and that in fact fire engines cannot use it for access to stop our house burning to the ground (it is less than one metre wide). With everything crossed, we may sign on Monday with a clause to deal with getting the road issue sorted before the conclusion of the final contract.

We're trying to be upbeat. In other news the man came today to quote for dealing with a termite infestation in a shed. And we went down to the river to check out the flood damage. Happily, the flood has cleared the beach a bit more, and dumped a whole load more stones - some of them great skimmers.