SEIG HAIL!!!

There have been quite a few hailstorms this Tuesday morning.. Autumn is definatly here. The heating is in and we are considering lighting a log fire in the kitchen tonight.

Kip and Bella found the hailstones quite tasty!

ST POTAN WIN A FOOTBALL GAME

No pictures as Al was linesman, but St Potan won 2-0 on Sunday, a first league victory of the season. The oposition were a bit miffed with their 8 offside goals being chalked out!!!

LONG LEADS

New 29ft long dog leads give them a bit of freedom.

Bella has had her stitches out and is back to normal.

Kip was neutered last week but they only found one ball had dropped. The vet had to search for the other one which was found under developed in his abdomen.

He has made a full recovery and has his stitches out on Thursday.

Any comment about dogs like their owners will be deleted!!!!!

GITE ROUND THE CORNER.

A short dog walk away is this gite. Always looks smart and tidy and a good place to stay on holiday. Thats if we are full of course.

A WIN AT POOL AS WELL

After last weeks draw, Friday we went to the Dinantais pub (in Dinan funnily enough) and won easily 7-3.

The team of 5 now has 3 English, Myself, John Roberts, & John Beasley, plus our French imports Isobel and Patrice.

Isobel again starred winning both games. She now has won all 4 singles games this season and is joint top of the individual. Not bad out of 2,190 (thats the final total ) registered players in the Brittany leagues.

Al won both to have a 3-1 win record.

Poor Patrice has been given the nickname Hotspur as he hasn't won a game all season!

All the league tables can be found on afebas.com

We are in Bretagne Department 2 Group G7.

There is some serious prize money in this as the whole of France has regional leagues to qualify for a national final.

THE MOTHER OF ALL COMEBACKS.

Last week the visiting darts team did not turn up for the first fixture of the season so we got a 19-0 victory. But Thursday was different as The Auberge pub in Matignon (a real local derby) turned up expecting to whip our sorry backsides, especially as they have 2 county players in the team. True to form we were dreadful as they raced into a 8-2 lead. They were hitting bullseyes for fun. Then one of those strange things happened as we won 7 on the trot to lead 9-8. We lost the next game, but fluked the decider to win 10-9. I don't think I have played in any sporting game with a turnaround like that.

THE WEEK AHEAD

Not a good week to be Kip. He is in for castration tomorrow. There will be no ball playing in the garden for a while. Or infact no ball playing of any sort ever again.

Al has darts on Tuesday and pool Friday, then on Sunday is the re-arranged football game against St Cast where he is linesman