We needed a couple more double glazed windows for the kitchen and living room, so yesterday we went back to Bricodepot in Pau to buy them. Since we weren’t far away, we called in to see some friends who live near Lannemezan, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, calling in en route, to see a large Tour de France sculpture on the edge of the motorway. Nick and Kieran went out for a bike ride, to do the Col de Beyrede, then we stayed for dinner. We got home about 11.30pm, to find we’d been invaded by flies! Thousands of black ones, buzzing round the bedrooms! Spent the next hour or so swatting and spraying them, and went to sleep to the delightful sounds of the buzzing of flies in their death throes – lovely. This morning will be spent clearing up the aftermath of the massacre.