17.7°C outside minimum 22.8°C in the cabin overnight. Cooler, but the rain had stopped. The sun came out and we had a day of sunshine and heavy showers. As we’d had a disturbed night we had a lie in. The electricity was back on, someone from the Mairie had been and fixed it. The yacht Fandango had gone so Mike moved the boat to close the gap while I got ready to go shopping. We went to Carrefour (a genuine hyper for the first time in ages) and bought a few of the items off our “to get” list. I replaced two bowls (1,58€ each) that I broke a few days earlier and bought a couple of new water glasses for 10c each. Treated the car to a new aluminium sun reflector. We managed to transport all the stuff down the hill from the car without getting wet. The trolley, however, got relegated to the bin as several more wheel spokes decided not to take the strain (the plastic had bio-degraded), well, it was over twenty years old. New one on the list to buy when we are back in the UK. We’d bought a cheese cloche – a mesh dome – which we thought would make a directional antenna for WiFi or even improve the Bouygues signal. I put the laptop on and tried the Internet. Plugged in directly it was on EDGE. Mike went for a nap. I hung the dongle in the window and the LED turned blue! We got 3G! Mike had just set up the TV to record two Sci-Fi films later and the UPS to make sure they recorded and the electricity went off again. He went out to put it back on. The crew off PAX 1, Morgenster and Anna-Maria IV were also out there trying to get the electricity reconnected. Mike checked, there was no incoming mains electricity - a fault further back in the line than we have access to – give up and tell them at the Mairie in the morning. He put our inverter on in the engine room.
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