La Foret D'Othe

[MooN]

Out again today, bloody lovely weather again and being as I can't go to work and the kids pretty much look after themselves now I dissappeared off out of it just after lunch. Did about 130 odd km around the Foret D'Othe which is an area north and east of us here. No map today cos of the whingers... but I dug the camera out for you.

After fifteen minutes or so I had to stop in the shade and open the vents on my Jacket, efficacious but fastidious is how I would describe them... ( cos "pain in the arse to do right" would be crude...)

                                                                        

 

Most of this afternoon was spent in simlar country, the area being mostly wooded and me searching out the more sketchy back roads. I did fond some open country along the northern edge of the Forest

 

came across this pretty place at the north eastern limit of my loop

                                        

 

 I did manage to find some short sections of trail across some of the more open farmland before plunging back into the forest and heading for home. I canged settings on the camera between these two pics and the colour looks a bit off ( too red?)  in the 2nd one. 

       

 

I found some more lovely single lane roads back through the forest towards Joigny and home  and had to stop for a photo shoot with tigrou ( tigger in French) 

pretty machine!

 

 

 

[XTreme]

Superb Chris!

You off all Summer?

[MooN]

1 hour ago, XTreme said:

Superb Chris!

You off all Summer?

Dunno yet Pete, according to bossman 1st client not yet cancelled is 10th July. 

we'll go back to work end June :

IF the canal opens

IF the clients still want to come

IF the uk lifts the 14day quarantine by then ( our clients aren't going to come if they have to do 14 days quarantine each way!)

IF the french authorities lift the 100km travel limit

IF the French govt make it more economical to return to work than not

 

That's a lot of IF's and any one of them not happening will preclude our opening. In which case we will start back in october...  so I'm waiting...

[XTreme]

4 minutes ago, MooN said:

Dunno yet Pete, according to bossman 1st client not yet cancelled is 10th July. 

we'll go back to work end June :

IF the canal opens

IF the clients still want to come

IF the uk lifts the 14day quarantine by then ( our clients aren't going to come if they have to do 14 days quarantine each way!)

IF the french authorities lift the 100km travel limit

IF the French govt make it more economical to return to work than not

 

That's a lot of IF's and any one of them not happening will preclude our opening. In which case we will start back in october...  so I'm waiting...

You still on full pay though?

[MooN]

12 minutes ago, XTreme said:

You still on full pay though?

currently yes. If we don't go back till end september I image that it will drop to around 70% of Brut ( +/- 85% of net) I imagine. I hope it won't drop below that cos with N01 starting Uni in Dijon this year we're going to struggle if it does.

[XTreme]

2 minutes ago, MooN said:

currently yes. If we don't go back till end september I image that it will drop to around 70% of Brut ( +/- 85% of net) I imagine. I hope it won't drop below that cos with N01 starting Uni in Dijon this year we're going to struggle if it does.

Absolutely! These are very uncertain times!

[Pedro]

3 hours ago, MooN said:

       

 

Good stuff! That's my kind of off-roading, easy going and floating along as fast as you like. I would love to ride through that just standing up and taking in all those lovely french countryside smells. 

 

I fear the time when all this crisis subsidized pay debs comes back to bite us in the ass in the form of taxes, but tomorrow's another day. Not a dig at you, it's more or less (righly so!) europe wide, but I would hate to be stuck with the bill.

[MooN]

1 minute ago, Pedro said:

I fear the time when all this crisis subsidized pay debs comes back to bite us in the ass in the form of taxes, but tomorrow's another day. Not a dig at you, it's more or less (righly so!) europe wide, but I would hate to be stuck with the bill.

I think you are probably very right my friend, the welfare state is a wonderful thing but it has to be paid for, this is also why the different govt are pushing schools to open and people back to work too early for safety, because the cost of staying locked down now outweighs the cost of dealing with a potential "nd wave of Covid.