Raining heavily this morning. I couldn’t park my car for free last night so had to use my permit for the first time and park on the square. You can park free from 7 at night until 9 in the morning but then you have to update the time on your permit every 2 hours to be able to stay there. Got it?! No, it took me a while too and even now I’m still not too sure! Anyway I got back at just after 7 last night and set my permit for 9am and then set a reminder on my phone to go and move it on 2 hours at 11! Which I did. What I hadn’t realised was that the clocks changed here too last night! I couldn’t understand why the clock in the appartment was an hour fast!!! Dope!
I had breakfast, wrote a bit and then decided I could put it off no longer. I had to go and find a launderette! We really do take it for granted don’t we? Having washers and dryers and things in our homes? It was 1pm, so time to change the time on my parking permit. But when I got outside- result! There was a space now on the side street where the permit isn’t needed, so I moved the car. Then I set off, on this dreary day (stopped raining though), with my bag of mucky stuff and my persil, to find the launderette. Good old google maps! A 9 minute walk. No problem.
I haven’t used a self service launderette since I was a student nurse at Airedale Hospital. There was a building called “central facilities” which had a common room and a launderette, which was, I think, free to use. All the nurses accommodation was built around this building so we used to put our stuff in and then just keep bobbing back to see if it was done. Often we would put it in before we went on duty. It was a regular thing to find that someone had taken your things out of the washer and just left them piled up on the top (not folded). Worse still for me was if someone had taken your things out of the dryer- AND THEY WEREN’T DRY- and again just dumped them on the top!!! You just ended up with screwed up, foisting smelling washing. Grrr! 😦
Anyway, here it’s 4 euros for a 35 minute wash and then 2 euros per each 15 minutes in the dryer. And although only a 9 minute walk back home I felt I should wait with my washing here.
I went to get some cash whilst I was waiting. I hadn’t been to this end of town before and found some really nice shops, including a fabric shop! I also found a vintagey style cafe (that isn’t open Sundays) and it’s got a salsa class there on the 31st so I’m going to try and pluck up the courage to go along!
The guy from the Levis add didn’t come in (can’t remember his name now?) but plenty other people were, like me, spending their afternoon in the launderette. As I say, we do take things for granted.
I got my first like for my blog today too! 🙂
I watched all the dances this evening from last night’s Strictly. It was the Hallowe’en show that I usually watch with my lovely friends the Vernons (and Trish’s Mum of course) Hope you all enjoyed it 🙂 As ever the costumes were amazing! I had thought that Craig was being a bit kinder this series but some of his scores seemed a bit mean this week.
Off to Cheverny tomorrow. Fab!
Bonne nuit 🙂
Jane’s Tour de Force 