Good news and bad news

Which do you want first? OK, here’s the bad news.

I forgot to mention that yesterday I lost half of the crop of plums on my little plum tree that I planted earlier this year. A bird obviously recognized that the plums represented a source of moisture and pecked one so badly that it was detached from the tree and fell to the ground and two more to the point that they were badly damaged. I have what I think is a Jay that seems to spend most of its time tramping around on the roof of my caravan wearing hob-nailed boots and I think it was the culprit.

I tasted the two damaged ones before throwing them away and although they were far from ripe, it was clear that they would have ended up quite full and tasty. As it is now, I have just three left and I hope that the ruddy bird will leave them alone so I get to find out how they end up.

Now the good news.

A short time ago I was asked by Enedis to send in the reading from my electricity meter, which I did a few days ago. Today I received my bill from EDF, which as I’ve now got an air fryer as well as a fridge and a freezer and have been running my electric fan almost non-stop, I expected to be in three figures. But no! It consisted of a 49€ refund that I’ll receive in the form of a cheque within the next two weeks.

Quelle Surprise! With the energy crisis, inflation and God only knows what else that’s going on, I can hardly believe it. I have consumed electricity, of course, but for some reason that I can’t decipher the ‘bill’ includes a large refund. Oh well, mustn’t look a gift-horse in the mouth. I’ll just accept my refund graciously and carry on 😉