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This week


 It was a glorious Sunday today, being a bit farm bound in the winter we took a drive to Saint Antonin this morning for coffee and a mooch round the market. Being a nice day tables were full outside of everyone enjoying a bit of sun. We managed to see quiet a few friends who remarked on us 'being off the farm', yes we do sometimes get out albiet usually to Villefranche for important erands!

 Not everyday has been lovely, rain has put a stop to outside must dos for a fair chunk of the week.

 However Farmer J did start on post cutting in the woods until his chainsaw gave up the ghost and is now in the maison de la tronconneuse (house of chainsaws). While i started battle with the brambles that have grown so well since the autumn around the gites. We have our first guests arriving next Saturday so trying desperately to get tidy.

 We started to uncover the old well opposite the house - a bit of a mammoth job, more to follow when it is finished.
 And we gave the wall between the house and road a hair cut from the ivy that had clad it over the past nine years, again not quiet finished but work in progress...

  Fizz has tried to help knitting, this cat loves to sit on things she's not suppose to. Computer comes in top as it gives off a bit of warmth. I'm knitting a jumper for Miss F, which seems to be taking a bit of time.

 Perhaps because i have so many projects on the go, my first weaving experiments are waiting to be made into a hot water bottle cover and a cushion for that cat.

I found English crisps in the supermarket - what a treat, now munching them while writing this post - wine is obligatory for Sunday evening.
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