Wednesday 26th September-Les Toulerons
Very misty morning today.
Decided we had to do something in the garden (Beatrice decided for me) so out to rake up all the apples under the trees so I can cut the grass, I’m told, firstly sorting out all the good ones. Hundreds of them! Washed, cleaned and wiped them dry before putting them on to the storage trays in the cool pantry. Some have been cooked and Beatrice will bake some and we’ll collect some more walnuts from the tree outside and eat em up! I’ve requested apple crumble.
Don’t know why I haven’t been eating an apple a day as I usually do, perhaps its because I didn’t get to choose them at the supermarket. Being this close to nature will take some getting use to. We eat the strawberries that are in abundance out the back door and also pick and eat the grapes off the vines growing over the pagoda, along with the variety of vegetables from the garden. We could be really self sufficient here. Bob would love it! He could even go out the back door and bag a duck flying over the house.
Alas! It started to rain and we had to come into the cottage for coffee.
Didn’t get to cut the grass.
Excitement as a white van drove up the track. It was the meter reader. We searched around the place for it and then found them under noses by the back door, admittedly hidden by a calendar.
Very misty morning today.
Decided we had to do something in the garden (Beatrice decided for me) so out to rake up all the apples under the trees so I can cut the grass, I’m told, firstly sorting out all the good ones. Hundreds of them! Washed, cleaned and wiped them dry before putting them on to the storage trays in the cool pantry. Some have been cooked and Beatrice will bake some and we’ll collect some more walnuts from the tree outside and eat em up! I’ve requested apple crumble.
Don’t know why I haven’t been eating an apple a day as I usually do, perhaps its because I didn’t get to choose them at the supermarket. Being this close to nature will take some getting use to. We eat the strawberries that are in abundance out the back door and also pick and eat the grapes off the vines growing over the pagoda, along with the variety of vegetables from the garden. We could be really self sufficient here. Bob would love it! He could even go out the back door and bag a duck flying over the house.
Alas! It started to rain and we had to come into the cottage for coffee.
Didn’t get to cut the grass.
Excitement as a white van drove up the track. It was the meter reader. We searched around the place for it and then found them under noses by the back door, admittedly hidden by a calendar.
Would you believe it, there was this strange noise, turning out to be the cow bells banging away at the front door, we had another visitor! Is there no peace.(just joking, we love it)
A good friend of V & G was calling. Gretchen Van Blaricom, actually an Americam who has been living in France for the last 12 years and has just returned from visiting Brittany.
We had a good chat and have been invited to have dinner with her family( and seven dogs) this Sunday and also made a date for us all to go to dinner, when Marisa will be with us, at the Rendezvous Peache Sunday 7th, which she says we will really enjoy.(No doubt we will hear more about it this Sunday)
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