Wednesday 16th September 2009 Pierrefitte. C. Latéral à La Loire.

Grey, chilly and raining when we got up. Mike had already said we weren’t going to go in the wet and checked that M and D were OK with that. They said the météo looked worse for tomorrow so Mike said we’d be staying another day then! The bedroom window had leaked on Mike’s head overnight so he took the curtains down and checked inside and out to try and find where the water was coming in. We found the leak when he poured water over the frame from outside. It was coming through the wooden frame by where there is a weld in the steel which dips in a bit making a minute gap behind the frame – the sealer must have shrunk in the summer heat. Another job. Later it was starting to turn a bit chilly so Mike lit our oil-fired central heating (Refleks) which was stubborn as we hadn’t used it in such a long time; he had to take the carburettor off and clean it out before it would light.