The audience for my recent blogs includes the UK, the USA, France, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Germany and two views in Japan! That'll be the honeymooners! Hello Greg and Jess! Hope you have a brilliant time island-hopping! Along with the bunnies on Bunny Island...
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Au Revoir Tulle, Au Revoir France!
A last little glimpse at the 'big town', Tulle, and its mixture of beauty and ugliness. Kevin walks away as I photograph pink fluffies... Kevin fetches his glasses from the 'van'. That means we're going to be eating... Our last meal out in Tulle was from the kebab shop! The shame of it! Every other restaurant was closed. It's true. It was a Monday. My view for ten hours... Sometimes the corner of the duvet became a grumpy Winston Churchill face. If I blurred my eyes a bit. But that's not sensible when driving. Ah, The Brasserie! Always a good call! A bientot, France! Je vous verrai en Novembre!
Kevin's Fancies
We drive past this little old van on the way to and from Seilhac. Kevin has never managed to drive past yet without commenting on its loveliness. Kevin thought it was important that I see these pumpkins 'just growing by the road'. They're actually tumbling down from someone's garden. Pumpkins do that, Kevin. The Unannounced Sweet Chestnut Challenge While wandering up the footpath to the forest, we waded through ball-ponds of fat sweet chestnuts. We nonchalantly gathered a few special ones in our pockets as we strolled, but with no intention of collecting further fruits to return to England with. On returning to our farm, Kevin announced the unannounced challenge: Who had collected the most chestnuts? Kevin can be quite strict with unannounced challenges, and he made me estimate the number of chestnuts I'd gathered before unpacking them from my pockets. I guessed that I'd stashed about 37. Kevin guessed that he had more, nearer 38. (But he, of cou...
Racing Autumn
As you can see, the front of cottage #1 is beautifully painted by my fair hand. Each patch of about six inches squared took about five minutes to fully daub, due to the extreme porridge surface effect. Kevin's resourceful protection technique for his grease trap lid involves using the two concrete blocks we found on site, and an old cartwheel. The concrete blocks have shown great tenacity and flexibility during their service at Cousein Bas. One of them performed admirably as our doorstep to the caravan, wrapped in a piece of carpet.The other has been the true chameleon, providing steps, supports, and any number of specialist services on site. It deserves a medal. We haven't finished this area yet, as we will be taking the ground level down on this Northerly aspect. I'm not sure how this can be true, but it seems that this area was dedicated to burying broken crockery and cutlery. We no longer require this service. We have the dechetterie. And it is likely that the cre...