Stay at home day

Having heard all about "the spot", prepare yourself for "the ankle"!!

Friday was forecast to be less than perfect in the afternoon and my ankle was really sore so decided to make today a "jour a la maison" for rest and, hopefully, some recuperation. This largely involved me lying on the sofa reading and, occasionally, sleeping. Not exactly what we had planned when thinking what to do in Nice!!

Carol went shopping in the morning for essential groceries - bread, vegetables, irresistable sweet pastries - and we enjoyed a very good lunch of bread, pate, cheese and tuile biscuits. What more could a sick man want?

With no movement looking likely from the ankle, we agreed that Carol should try and do something - in the end, she decided to go to the cinema. She saw a film called "Faubourg 36" which, as far as I can tell, was set in 1936, the period when the Front Populaire came to power in France. Apparently not a nice group of people. However, Carol definitely enjoyed the experience - I have to applaud her confidence in being prepared to challenge her language skills in such a way - she reckons she got most of what the film is about although the setting was a little uncertain in her mind. Incidentally, this was a film by the same guy who did another film called "The Choir" or "The Choristers" a few years ago. We'd intended seeing that but never got around to it.

Upon her return, she decided to try and get some medication from the pharmacie for me - returning with a couple of different bandages and some analgesic cream. Used the cream with some success, albeit temporary, but were uncertain about how to wrap in a bandage so didn't use them in the end.

I was able to stand sufficiently to make us Spaghettini Carbonara (I made up the word spaghettini -it was very thin spaghetti that cooked in no time but not capellini dei angeli - angel's hair pasta). Went down very well with a bottle of Touraine sauvignon. We then watched a programme about a, presumably, famous lawyer - Henri Leconte - who seemed to have been involved in most of the high profile cases of the last 50 years. More is making sense the more we watch.

Then to bed.