Today was the first day for the kids to have lunch at the canteen. I’ve been meaning to book them in for a while and by the time I finally got around to going up to the Mairie (I’m just sooo busy all the time) they tell me you have to book and pay one month in advance so we actually had to wait almost another full month until their first time.
Practically the whole school (25 kids) goes to the canteen for lunch everyday. It involves going by bus to the next village (Cennes Monasties) and eating a cooked lunch which is way better than the ham on baguette we have at home. It costs €2,80 each meal. Money well spent. It means Andrew and I can have a whole 8 hours to ourselves to do what we want without having to race around in a mad panic to get home by 12 noon to pick upthe kids for lunch.
Anyway our first day without the kids, we kind of wasted the time doing necessary errands, food shopping and picking up our computer which has been in the shop getting all the grotty viruses and spyware removed. We’ve been computerless for 10 days and it’s been hell!
The past week without the computer has come at an awkward time with Andrew having emails needing printing out and faxing. We had to drive back and forth to Carcassonne several times. (It’s 25 km away from Carlipa.) But the best bit by far was the cost of sending a fax from the post office in Carcassonne to Australia, €9 for the first page which is about $18 AU. We had 32 pages to send. I refused to fax it on principle. Jeepers! So we were thrilled to discover at the internet café “Alert Rouge” they charge only €1 per page to send a fax so we trundled up there only to be told they can’t fax to Australia. Can you believe it? Back to square one.
Well after this we were tossing up buying a fax. We thought it’ll be cheaper in the long run and we found a multifunction printer scanner fax all in one thingy. It was a beauty for €79 but when we enquired about it, they were out of stock on that model. We started to think the universe was against us.
Anyhoo, finally after chatting to Mark our landlord he mentioned he had an old fax machine in the attic somewhere which we managed to dig out, dust off and at long last send our 32 page fax, one page at a time. The End.
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