1 Sous la Serre,
11240 Routier, France
Well that was last nights location anyway. Lovely little village but the Aire was at the top of the hill with none of it's services working. In particular the facility to deal with 'the Telford!' There was also a hooley blowing which turned into heavy overnight rain. This after some promising warm early morning sunshine near Toulouse where we had wild camped overnight.
Tanya was not quite right either. Nothing major just a bit lethargic and the odd wee cough which is just not Tanya. "OMG!" Goes I and promptly start winding myself up with the worst of scenarios. I'd done the google bit and there was no two ways about it. I had neglected the Front Line treatment which had allowed ticks and fleas to get on board and have a crackin good jumpin and blood suckin party.
"That's it! She's done for. She'll have all those hunreds n hunreds of ticky flea parasite thingeymajigs surfin all her red blood cells now till they decide to take retirement in liverland or kidneyvillage or somewhere where she's gonna be a gonna. OMG! OMG!"
To cut a long story short it was not a good night or morning. Once again I had to resort to 'action' to sort things out. "A plan, that's what I need. A plan!" Now, and I think I've said this before, I'm not to good at planning. This situation though demanded the attention of a non anxious and logically sane mind. OK; so a calming meditation dealt with the anxiety but the 'logical sane' bit? Ha! You gotta be joking. I challenge anyone. Have you ever seen Steve, logic and Sane in the same room together?
A plan however did emerge. I had decided that to relieve anxiety and also to be sensible Tanya did need to be checked out by a Vet. (££££££ - Gulp!) I had also decided we are going to keep going South till we do hit this elusive blob in the sky they call sun.
Now here's the good bit. Once Sadie's wheels were powered up and spittin tarmac, out came the sun! Ok; so I am now poorer with Aprils budget seriously challenged. Vet bills here also have the ability to numb and shock. On the plus side though the sun is still shining and just sinking behind these Pyrenean foothills surrounding the town of Quillan. A lovely warm evening and a quiet spot for the night right on the edge of the town by the rushing river Aude.
The vet was excellent. Another plus. He did all tests and examinations on the spot. He found a slight raising of something or other to do with liverland. I revert straight back to OMG! and told you so did'nt I as I stood there with Tanya leaning heavily against me on the examination table.
"Them little jumpin blood suckin b*****s! Well Haaa!" Says I. "Oi'll ave yu cos I've now got vitnary medicine and them injections wot vitnary done is gonna do for you lot good n proper like. See!"
To be fair he did say tick n flea infections are very common in France and it was a good early observation of symptoms on my part. It did of course also allow him to practice his English, dispense loads of medication and charge me a fortune. No matter. Tanya is worth every penny.
And the anxiety relief? Well; when I used to gently challenge my Counselling clients to name a price they would be willing to pay to be free of a particular worry or anxiety.
A; it made them think and invariably comment they had never thought of in that way before. And
B; The price they did come up with was of course an awful lot of money.
We stayed in Quillan and this morning did a super walk/climb to Pic de Bitrague which towers above the town. It was not what I had planned for the day but Tanya had a couple of nasty coughing bouts in the night so a shorter walk and staying local to the vet seemed a sensible course of action. As it turned out she was fine so this afternoon we've moved 3km to:-
Impasse de la Fount Vieille, 11500 Belvianes-et-Cavirac, France
We are parked in the deserted village square where we'll overnight and tomorrow do the originally planned 'Belvedere du Diable'. Looks a lovely 8km walk/steep climb!
Oh! And I'm fed up of the pink baler twine keeping my curtains in place. When I saw some yellow ribbon in a shop.....weeeell. I've just got to remember my Navy days now and tie some sexy looking bows!!
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