We\u2019ve been here a month! And it\u2019s still raining. And cold. Had to check the local paper just to make sure we hadn\u2019t suddenly been transported to Ireland. Nope, it was still France. (Apologies to any Irish reading this, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not always raining there). Despite the rain, we managed to have a bath by the simple expedient of carrying the bathtub into the kitchen again and heating the water in large pots on the wood stove. The bathwater is a bit more brown than usual, thanks to JP’s efforts yesterday. Still, at least we’re now clean. We\u2019ll never again take a tiled bathroom for granted.<\/p>\n
Wildlife diary: We\u2019ve discovered that there are a pair of ducks nesting in the reeds next to the pond. I only noticed the nest because I happened to walk up to the pond from a different direction, and the female duck flew noisily out of the reeds. There appear to be 7 eggs in the nest, all a pale duck-egg blue (obviously). I beat a hasty retreat as I don\u2019t want them abandoned.<\/p>\n
An Orange\/France Telecom engineer called regarding the problem we\u2019d reported with the internet. The doctor visited the aged FIL today, and recommended that he get a medical bed, a “lit m\u00e9dicalis\u00e9” to facilitate the nurse giving him a bed-bath (when we are finally able to find a nurse that does this, that is). In order to get a bed, a prescription is needed. Unfortunately, as this doctor was a locum (the usual doctor is on holiday) he forgot to fill out the prescription form. So LSS called the surgery, where she spoke to the receptionist\/secretary\/administrator.<\/p>\n “We need a prescription to get a medical bed, a \u2018lit medicalyse\u2019”. We\u2019ve been here a month! And it\u2019s still raining. And cold. Had to check the local paper just to make sure we hadn\u2019t suddenly been transported to Ireland. Nope, it was still France. (Apologies to any Irish reading this, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not always raining there). Despite the rain, we managed to have a bath … Continue reading “23\/04\/2012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Eh? We haven\u2019t reported any problem with the internet.” (see 19th April, Engineer number 3<\/a>)
“Oh, it says here you\u2019ve reported that you\u2019re not getting a 2Mbps connection, only 1Mbps, so we\u2019ll need to arrange for an engineer\u2019s visit.”
“Ohhhhhhhh, I see. No, look, we didn\u2019t report it. The other engineer reported it. We didn\u2019t know it was a problem. We don\u2019t want you touching it, we\u2019re quite happy, please leave us alone, we don\u2019t need any other engineers, and I want my mummy.”<\/p>\n
“This prescription, is it a renewal?”
“!”
I told her she should have said, “Yes, he\u2019s finished eating the old one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"