Weather – another weekend written off

I’ve been struggling with Windows 7 on my PC since before I moved to France, but that’s another story. I decided that I’d had enough on Friday evening and began the move back to Windows XP, and by the time I’d finished doing that yesterday morning and then made a trip to the supermarket, it was too late to start doing anything on the X-Air before the final matches of the 2013 Six Nations Rugby kicked off in the afternoon. And quite honestly, although my car temperature gauge showed 10.5 degrees Celsius on my return from the shop, it still felt ruddy cold outside in the wind.

Well done to Wales who annihilated England, who feebly surrendered their quest for a Grand Slam almost without a fight, like a bunch of pussies. If they had played the way they did today all the way through the tournament, they would have won the Wooden Spoon, not France. They played like a bunch of junior school-boys, just chucking the ball back to get rid of it when there was nobody there to receive it and all manner of pathetic mistakes like that. I’ve seen school rugby teams play better and if we had made the kind of elementary mistakes they were making, we would have been on the receiving end of a massive blast from my old school First XV coach. There’s no shame in being beaten by a superior team after a good fight but to surrender so meekly was inexcusable in my view.

But enough of that. My plan today was to get back outside and at least fit the new elevator trim and brake cables to the X-Air, but the weather looks to have thwarted that idea. It’s cold and drizzly outside, just as the forecast said it would be, so it looks as though I’ll be staying indoors and finishing of the re-configuring of my PC. I could consider getting togged up and rotavating in the old vegetable beds on my front lawn, but there are several daffodils and michaelmas daises in that area and I don’t have the heart to dig em all up 😉