busy day doing nothing much

 Voila! DAWN breaking on the bridge. I woke up early and had a splendidly entertaining morning, before collasping into what will certainly be another early night and pretty soon at that.

By good luck I met Pete and we took coffee together (Kats away so I have to find other coffee partners) and Olle-Bendick joined us. Others chipped in and the floor show was hugely droll - mostly because the Rue Voltaire next to the 8a8 was closed for repaving as was the end of the Rue Republique so persons had to walk around past the Post Office or round the back near Roy and Jo's Maison de Riviere. The citizens right of passage was disrupted massively, as we heard from many sources - culminating in a jeune garcon Pete described as a 'character' insisting on independence for Esperaza, like Scotland.

By the end of play all had been completed. Roads are again open. The threat of a breakaway commune has receeded.

Its been very hot again, though with a pleasent breeze. Squandered some time this afternoon with Angus and Mary, back from holidaying in Spain; Tim and Yvonne, still here; Kenny and Cathy are here too, Cathy looking sensationally good and a few months off the birth of her boy child. (She dosent expect to be in Esperaza for then so I didnt offer my now-famous birthing pool )