25th August 2024

Another sunny day, but very much cooler day. Some clouds around. Yesterday’s campers virtually all left again. New ones started to arrive in the afternoon. We are definitely in the area where people come for one night only. A Dutch van staying near us borrowed our European to 16Amp adapter. He then passed that through a 16amp adapter which spil into two, so both of us could plug in. I was surprised he did not have a European adapter. Wrong he had one, but not one that accepted the earth pin from the socket on the post. That surprised me, his van could potentially have been live, and only earthing when someone got in and out. How dangerous is that?

Today R started proofreading our daughter S’s thesis. I started reading the kindle version of the second volume of the Three Body Problem, the  Chinese sci-fi book. So not a lot happened today. A couple of walks around the pond. Saw a Kingfisher on the pond, managed a photograph of it with the phone.  Went back a couple of times with the big lens and no further sighting of the bird of the bird. Unfortunately, a few fishermen on the banks now.

Today’s hoard of travellers arrived in the late afternoon, usual commotion around the power points. One van wanted to lay the cable across the road, insisting he had been told he could. The site owners asked him to move elsewhere.

Planning to go to a site near to CERN. Still in France, but we will travel over the boundary into Switzerland and back into France.