No water but sunshine

The weather has significantly improved.  Although cold, it is sunny and bright so I felt slightly better when I woke this morning.

We braved the chill to go down to the house and open it up.  We cleared out the lounge of debris and decades of dirt and I also sorted out some of the stuff in the caravan.  It needs a good clean but of course that will have to wait until we have water.

The internet has arrived within 3 days, oh bliss!  I should be delighted but I just feel that I can now huddle in the caravan and see what people in warm countries are doing.  I know it's a step forward but at the moment it doesn't seem like much.  On the bright side, I now have a room to do some dancing in, which should cheer me up.  I have downloaded some music so I'm good to go!

Not exactly Pretoria East, but somewhere to dance

Unfortunately I didn't have time to try out my new 'dance studio' as there was a mass of paperwork to do regarding the car purchase and insurance.  There's a bit of a problem as the Prefecture is not happy that I changed my name when I got married and my 'nom de jeune fille' is different from my married name.  Funnily enough I don't carry my marriage certificate around with me - perhaps I ought to!  Oh well, nothing is simple here.

Back to the gite for a shower and then off to do the weekend food shopping before picking up the car. It all went without a hitch, despite the fact that it is still not registered in my name as I don't carry my birth, marriage, divorce and next marriage certificates with me.  How remiss of me.

The journey back to the gite was fine and I arrived tooting my horn and smiling for the first time in at least a week and we celebrated with some local rosé.

We finally ate the pork and prunes which somehow had not been ruined by the pressure cooker and celebrated finally making some progress.  Internet and a car all on the same day!!

Who knows what tomorrow will bring?