Katie Lloyd always celebrates her birthday here in France, because they visit during the school holidays. Tom has already had his birthday in June, so trying to be nice neighbours, we took them both into Nimes yesterday to choose a present. Tom is a 15 years old male, knows what he wants, goes straight to the shop, spends a fortune on a pair of shorts and is finished. Katie is a 12 years old female, has no idea what she wants (mostly because she already has it), but decides on a smart and expensive new pencil case for school and, because she still has money to spend, we shoot over to the most enormous store where I gave her 30 minutes to choose something before we leave. Needless to say she could not decide. If you check back to this time last year it could be interesting to see what I wrote.
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Today was mostly spent doing more neighbourly things. The part for the Lloyd's car had arrived so I accompanied Gill to Nimes to drop off her car and then to the airport to pick up her mum. On the way back we stopped at the supermarket. This afternoon we visited the derelict house next door to them with a view to checking out the possibilities of making both houses into one. The vendors want 200,000 euros for the property which is way over priced but they should probably settle for 150,000 or less. Because it adjoins their property, even at that price and with all the work to be done, it could still be a reasonable investment.
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After dinner Gill, Tom, Katie, Jan and I went to the night market in Sommieres. Basically it's just a scaled down version of the night market in Nimes. The atmosphere was good with lots of people eating in the market square and the new bar/restaurant Delice du Liban doing a roaring trade. I'm pleased for them because they serve good food and Elie the prop is a very nice man.
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