T`was on a Monday morning that the gasman came to call

I don`t  know under what inauspicious star La Mort Limouzin was situated this morning! It started out quietly--A large lorry arrived at the bottom of the village with a delivery of new windows for our friends and neighbours Monique and Christian. A VERY large lorry, for when it backed up to approach their house it pulled the telephone wire out of his wall!  Christian came to us to use our phone to ring France Telecom, always a long-drawn out procedure. After half an hour`s negotiation they agreed to ring back with a repair date and he left to go to town to shop.
   A few minutes after, another lorry was heard, this one with a delivery for M. Chauvet, another neighbour. This further cretin (what is it with French lorry-drivers?) decided to go up our narrow street, found he could not turn at the top and reversed back, carrying away the corner of the verge of our little building on the other side of the road, only re-roofed last year. The damage is in fact superficial, but looks dramatic. I could probably fix it myself, but we have asked Ian, another neighbour,  to do it.
  On his return, we asked Christian to ring the lorry firm for us, as a French native is more likely to get satisfaction, which he did admirably. However, during his shopping trip, a passing car had thrown up a stone which had cracked the windscreen of his car!  As Flanders and Swann sang, it all makes work for the working man to do!! Jamais deux sans trois as the French proverb runs, so we can at least relax in the hope that the series of misfortunes has finished...
  On a more cheerful note, we have had two, dry, warm days and things are starting to dry up a bit, though water is still pouring out of the waterlogged grass. And our new Bank account seems at last to be working, as we have received the transfer of funds from the old Bank and a trial transfer of Pounds to Euros by a specialised firm seems to have gone well. It`s not all doom and gloom!

   Bye for now, going to find my hare`s foot charm...