Killing Time

Backgammon 

As I said in the previous post, waiting for an offer on your house is a pains taking exercise, and I'm afraid I'm not very good at it. So as a way of re-leaving at least some of the boredom I've taken to learning the art of Backgammon.
This is a game that rather past me by when I was younger, and apart from a couple of games with my friend Matt, whilst cruising down The Nile,  (how posh is that), I've never really played.  But I know it's very popular on the continent, including France, see where I'm going with this? And it's  my thinking, it would be a good thing to be able to take on the locals and not look a twit. Thus helping the integration process, and making new French friends.

We purchased this board whilst on our Turkish holiday, and it's very beautiful, and by English standards well priced (read cheap). It's hand made and was ours for a little under thirty English pounds. It will also be good to have around the B&B for our guests to use along with Scrabble, Cluedo and whatever else we can gather together.

Last week we had three more viewings, but nothing more this week. But to keep us interested we've decided to have a bit of a move round with the bedrooms. At present we sleep in the loft room which, to be honest was always going to be best with either one or two single beds. And when we (finally) get to France we are going to need a twin room. So we've ordered a bed to match the one we already have in the box room, and we are going to move down to the second floor into the room vacated by our lovely lodger Betsy. The thinking is it will make the house look more balanced.

That does however mean putting away my beloved Scalextric that has had pride of place in that room  for the past month. Oh well, you can't have it all.

Scalextric

  I hope the next time I write on this blog I will be talking about an offer and that things going forward...........Fingers crossed.