Friday Busy day today. I have back to back meetings and Matt is off to Toulouse to return some bits and pick up some other things. While he was out the new BBQ was delivered along with his super new office chair. They were too heavy for me to move alone so were dumped on the veranda and porch awaiting his return. The first of the hollyhock flowers came out

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Monday Busy day of back to back calls. Matt has done a little more clearing of the pink bathroom ahead of the plumber coming round. The bidet is now out and the old pipework exposed. The last of the kitchen plasterboards has also now been dropped so that he can drop the pipework into the ceiling void. Finally at about 6:30 I had a brief opportunity to get out into

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Friday Just sitting here working. Thankfully the boss was able to find some time to get some weekend supplies. He’s very lovely though as he came back with gifts ? When asked what I wanted for dinner my answer was ‘don’t we need eggshells for the tree’ (apparently egg shells help reduce peach leaf curl). So he made me bacon and egg pie. I got a good one. [4 June

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Sunday Since we have guests coming we’re up pretty early to get the house tidied. It hasn’t looked this good in ages! Matt made some fresh bread and some of Muma Camp’s sausage rolls while I did a quick pasta lunch. Cressida and Johnny came over with their lovely dogs, Basil and Archie. It was a surprisingly long time before the cat ventured out but she seemed to take some

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Monday – Tuesday Two day jobs doesn’t leave anywhere near enough time to do anything of interest. Finally made some time in the evening to update the blog. [24-25 May 2021] Wednesday Ugh, up early today as apparently the plumber is coming. Of course, the plumber is not coming, he’s French but we did wait for him all day. Since I was up and working so early Matt and I

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Thursday Another day another dollar, so they say, however I felt that I could happily have given it all a miss for today. The highlight of the day however was a lovely package from my mother 🙂 Looks as though I have some more seeds to plant, I mean I was a bit short on seeds and the spring pots are past it now. Weather today however was so good

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