tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26872691247954435242024-03-14T13:14:31.163+00:00la vie françaiseAdjusting to French life in rural BrittanyKen Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659672111856249878noreply@blogger.comBlogger675125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2687269124795443524.post-57843054062388797412016-03-17T09:55:00.003+00:002016-03-17T10:15:46.466+00:00Bringing my journal up to date...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
19th February to present is almost a month. Perhaps I should dance through and recap on just the main bits.<br />
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Friday the 19th was a good night as I recall.<br />
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Yes, that's Bev bottom left, lost in a sea of sound.</div>
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She counted how many fiddle players and guitarists and banjo players and other weird instruments were in the room.</div>
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They were even in the other room.</div>
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It was excellent!! Totally brilliant!! It reminded me of the old days crammed into a small area with surround sound live music. The air was saturated with sound. Superb atmosphere.<br />
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Le Bono is rekindling my love of live music although it's taking its toll on my frail old body. We arrived home after midnight...again!<br />
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We woke up to discover the new woodstore I created last week is leaking!! It isn't fit for purpose. The gradient is too shallow, so I had to steepen it. What a pain! All done, now! We no longer have to wade through flooded lawn and giant molehills to get wood down in the allotment area.<br />
Those bottles vibrate on sticks in the breeze and are above each mole tunnel. It's working!! No new molehills for two weeks!!<br />
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Happy Birthday to me!! I'm off out for a treat.</div>
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Dave and Annie treated us to a Chinese in Dinard.</div>
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Important note:<span style="text-align: center;"> Just one year to go before I retire.</span><br />
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I won at cards at Dave & Annie's place...again!<br />
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Today I was practicing at the Gentry household for Saturday's music night. We finished at lunch-time and had time to visit Le Roche Bernard.<br />
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The residents were pretty rude...</div>
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...at a safe distance!</div>
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Today (Friday)we had help with moving that bank...<br />
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We're getting ready to put a fence here...</div>
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The boat virtually backed right onto the pampas which extended past the hedge. We cleared the area to put chickens here, but decided against it as the boat will possibly fit into this space in winter, leaving room for our caravan where the boat is now. We'll see. At least the area is cleared and almost ready<br />
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Time to do the first cut of the year.<br />
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The music evening that we practiced for went really well...I think! David is a really good guitarist and more than made up for my little mistakes.<br />
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Josselin on Monday 29th...Belle and Sebastian in Josselin. Not the Scottish Indie group, but the French film.<br />
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Before the cinema we planted 100's of bulbs and prepared the hard-core base a little more.<br />
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Rennes was our day out. Brilliant!<br />
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Undergroud was fascinating. I traced the off-cuts to here.</div>
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This was just like my space at college...always trying to motivate myself. I wonder why they use English?</div>
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Zipping past the Stade Rennais FC at Roazhon Park on our way back home.</div>
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The next day Steve came over to talk to us about chickens. They are going back to the UK and have kindly agreed to give us their eight layers and magnificent cockerel. Mmn, guess we'll have to prepare an area...<br />
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Enjoyed a meal and games at Martin & Colette's place on Sunday evening even though I was ill at church and came home early.<br />
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Right, it's time to prepare the chicken area (on a very windy day), cut down dangerous trees, buy posts, get rubbish to the tip...it's great to be outdoors.<br />
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David and Eileens plum tree. It's budding very well and will soon outgrow the daffs.</div>
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Work in progress, but at least it's in place. I need to extend the back fence to meet up with this one as I seem to have gained a yard or so.</div>
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We were shocked to hear of Trevor passing away and have been thinking of all the times we've shared over the years. He wasn't a close friend, but a friend all the same. I'll miss him.<br />
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Last night was Archery in Josselin...Bev beat me again.<br />
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Good news!! Sophie has agreed to sell the outbuilding that she calls the "Petite Maison" and which will eventually become my new studio. The Bread Oven (in the background) will not be suitable as it doesn't have electricity and is best suited as a multi-functional space.<br />
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This little building will be ideal and is close enough for the internet. It's the same footprint as the bread oven, but I won't build it quite so high as I'm not really interested in having a mezzanine floor.</div>
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My current studio will enjoy a new life.<br />
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Ken Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659672111856249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2687269124795443524.post-5338054283257451302016-03-14T07:54:00.003+00:002016-03-14T07:54:56.392+00:00What I really think.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In an effort to personalise my journal, here are my initial three thoughts on politics...<br />
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2% smooth and 99% rough...it just doesn't add up! (percentages may vary from day to day).<br />
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We vote for the tip of the iceburg and are hit by what's hidden beneath.<br />
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I agree when they say politics is life...a sentence usually reserved for those who take it away.</div>
Ken Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659672111856249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2687269124795443524.post-48739488423525621662016-02-18T12:24:00.004+00:002016-02-18T12:30:19.168+00:00Time is flying! Journal update 8th - 18th Feb.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Studio is all ready for me now. Everything is organised.<br />
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Prfeviously poor quality stone on show, now breathable stone coloured render.</div>
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The storms on Friday heaped devastation on Yvon's unprotected woods. More than twenty came down.</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">Bev beat me at archery this week in Josselin.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">I wrote a letter of complaint to the mayor of Cruguel.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The mayor of Billio died this week (at just 52).</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Visited Hubert and Karen.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Visited Syd and Didi.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Dave beat us at 'Tens' yesterday, but I still helped him cut his trees into chunks.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Drove over to Dave and Rachel earlier in the week.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Bev went to Vannes with Dave and Annie to help them with their Carte Gris.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Then she drove to Ploermel to put new front tyres on the car.</li>
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Monday the 18th was our film date afternoon at Josselin.<br />
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Then it was time to begin building that cupboard on the landing I've been wanting to do for such a long time. It's a messy job but Bev was eager to get it sorted. Then my sister, now living in Santa Monica, facetimed and we spoke for an hour about old-time memories of the Garths.<br />
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Tuesday was Archery in Josselin. Bev is getting very good at it (and very competitive).<br />
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Wednesday...Dave and Annies for a game of tens. I won! This was the evening that I came down with a severe cold.<br />
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Mickael Kevin Calves visited with news...sorry but we're sworn to secrecy.<br />
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I was ill Friday.<br />
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Saturday was our annual goals evening with the gang in the UK. Skype is a modern miracle. Bev won the trophy for achieving her goals for 2015. Now we start all over with fresh goals for 2016.<br />
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Sunday was a busy as ever and then it was Monday again.<br />
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A helping hand to paint my panels ready for painting again next Monday.</div>
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Their new home in the overflow larder under the stairs.</div>
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On Tuesday evening we stayed in to watch Suffragette and decided at the last moment to go out to Archery as soon as it finished. Got back very late. <span style="text-align: center;">It's a good film. On Monday we'll go to Josselin and watch it in French.</span><br />
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Wednesday was cards again and Annie won BOTH games. We played two games because the weather was so bad. We worked on the landing when we got back while listening to music at full volume. So good! I've recovered from my cold.<br />
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Thursday was French at Marthe's in Cruguel. Flo (her beautiful white cat) has died. So sad!<br />
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Friday was an early start as my winter studio door was being fitted.</div>
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Another area to fill and seed.</div>
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Later it was our night out for a meal and live music at Le Vieux Pont in Le Bono. It was fantastic! Loved it!</div>
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This is Waraba Live featuring our friend Ludo on guitar. it's an Afro Funky Jazz group and they rocked!</div>
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Yesterday we finished the landing as well as the ceiling where the wasps were. The cupboard is just what we wanted. Everthing is looking much better now.</div>
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It's as if it has always been there. Just need to hang the door and stain the woodwork. We've decided to carpet upstairs now to get away from the holiday home feeling.</div>
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Wasps a distant memory! All nice new and clean again!</div>
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Today we had Simon, Corinne, Benjamin and Odelia over for a meal. We had a really lovely time. They're such a nice family. They helped us with French and we helped them with English.<br />
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Skyped family and ready to settle down for the evening. <br />
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Bev has just noticed that Terry Wogan has died. My word, the stars are falling like flies this year.</div>
Ken Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659672111856249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2687269124795443524.post-22660746887031427732016-01-17T17:37:00.001+00:002016-01-17T17:38:02.464+00:00Writing about your own life...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My personal history has been on the radar for completion for a number of years now. I'd be embarrassed to tell you just how many years I've been stuck on chapter one, but this year...well, I thought it would be nice to finish.<br />
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It's a lot harder than I thought. I'm on chapter three and everything not typed up is just spaghetti at the moment. How on earth do I untangle everything and progress to chapter four and getting out of my pram?<br />
I imagined about fifteen chapters would cover the first twenty-two years of my life, but already I have headings for thirty chapters and counting, and I must have read those first three chapters a dozen times and making as many changes.<br />
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I need a plan! I can't face another decade without progressing.<br />
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I feel better now. This is a little pep talk to myself and I'm ready to dive into spaghetti again.</div>
Ken Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659672111856249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2687269124795443524.post-82677205762341099402016-01-17T16:40:00.002+00:002016-01-18T07:33:28.975+00:00Yet another week gone.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As it's one of our goals to travel during this our 40th anniversary year, we began modestly on Friday with a visit to Nantes...a city we've never visited.<br />
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Oops! This isn't Nantes...it's one of Dave and Annie's trees that blew down in the storm on Tuesday. The big oak on the corner of the lane leading to Yvon's woods also came down. </div>
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Here we go! Through the woodlands, through the valleys tilting at the wind farms passing...</div>
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And another angle from the window of the room below...definitely more impressive than the pathetic weak 'Gong' which sounded the hour mark. No trumpeting whatsoever! No proud fanfare!</div>
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Nantes had key tourist magnets which were closed for winter, but we still enjoyed the visit. It didn't have an abundance of all things ancient (which is what we love), but we didn't expect Venice today. It was Nante's day. It made us feel at home, too...it has C&A and Burtons.</div>
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We tried to kill them off at first...and we killed thousands, but thy just kept coming, so we left them alone during summer knowing they will eventually die as winter approached.<br />
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The covering is a crispy paper-like shroud.</div>
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We're getting back to normal after our hectic Christmas and it's good to be outside in the garden.<br />
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Dave and Annie came round an hour earlier to do the sausage rolls and make the mulled wine for our French guests. There were so many bottles on display that you would doubt our tea-total status. In fact, other than the youngsters, we were the only alcohol-free couple. I've not included the photos of all the drinks on offer, but it was an education in itself finding out about the preferred tastes of the rural French in terms of drink.<br />
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Not keen on these, but the French love them...along with the nuts, crisps, olives, cheeses, chocolates, cake and yes, the mince pies.</div>
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Sophie, Isabel, Pascal and Bev.</div>
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Marthe is the deputy mayor of Cruguel and we gather at her house in St Yves every Thursday afternoon for French. Quite a character...we love her!</div>
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Karen and Hubert ('oobare). Hubert lives in St Yves (a mile away) but grew up next door. His dad was Joseph (sadly no longer with us). Karen, his wife, is English. Also in the picture is Colette who lives just out the back of us with her husband Martin.</div>
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We started the week in Josselin to watch another film.<br />
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Bev getting into Christmas baking. There is a reason for the newspaper wrapped around the tin...but I can't remember what it is.</div>
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She also finished her quilt...or whatever it's called. Looks great!</div>
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And she even had time to up-cycle a tired shelf, but only after completely redecorating the main bedroom...the whole room!! In TWO days!!</div>
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My final commission finished! Time to get ready for Christmas.</div>
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Bev's birthday present arrived from David and Eileen. We can hardly lift it!! Works perfectly on top of the stove. I love presents that benefit me as well:)</div>
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Can't believe all our Christmas cards are written and en-route. This has to be a first!<br />
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Our new fire framed with Christmas cheer.</div>
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Last night was archery night. It looks cosy, but the actual archery bit is outside standing under a shelter in case it rains. We've been using bare bow technique, but will progress to my preferred classic style with sights and stabilisers when we are ready. Are you reading this Gary Telford?? I think my draw weight is 35lb for a hunting bow, but I'll be able to confirm in the coming weeks. Let me have a quote if you are still going to make bows. A Telford black beauty would be just fine. Can't wait for Summer and long warm afternoons to indulge in various types of shooting again. The last time was the 1960's.</div>
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In 2007, we had a 'This Is Your Night' just for Eric, Florrie, Elardeo, Joan and Audrey, but it was a special night for Dot also. We didn't expect her to see Christmas that year, and it was a surprise party to honour her, too.<br />
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We'll miss you...your courage, kindness and strength. You are, and always will be in our thoughts, and we are proud to have been a part of your life.</div>
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We began the week by going to the cinema in Josselin to see "Margueritte" a French film. We also dropped in to see Rod and picked up the last of the roof tiles we bought from him. He invited us in to see his woodburner but it was a huge gleaming motorbike parked in pride of place in his living room that took our eye. We also found out he was an archer and told us the archery club (that have ignored my emails for a year) was actually still meeting in Josselin, so we checked it out.<br />
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Tuesday we tried the archery club out. It was cool! We'll go again next week and get measured up.<br />
Wednesday was our French club meal in Pontivy. I must have had half a dozen plates of food...then the desserts!<br />
Thursday was French.<br />
Friday was gardening time. It was a beautiful day and was warm enough to eat outside...still stuffed from Wednesday, though! We managed to get a lot done.<br />
Saturday we were in Ploermel shopping before dropping off at the tip to get rid of our rubbish.<br />
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Leaves are half collected. I've created this cage so we can have leaf mould next year. There's some grass cuttings in there as I managed to get the lawns cut while it was dry.</div>
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The water drains off the roof of the bread oven into this container with the overspill flowing into a second container. Sorted!</div>
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The little window opening (straight ahead) is filled in and all the stonework pointed. The light is fitted and working and the heater has been wired up. I'm sorted and will be painting in here tomorrow as it's virtually draught proof and spider free.</div>
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Our final job was to incinerate about a thousand wasps that had made a nest above our dormer window and had made their way onto our landing to die. There are thousands still up there. When I think they are all dead, I'll take the ceiling down and remove them and the nest containing the queen. I was quoted 200 euros to get rid of them, but saved money knowing they'll die in winter. All I needed to do was leave then in peace and wait. Not looking forward to taking that roof down, though.</div>
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It's been a hectic two weeks and I'm struggling to keep up.<br />
Apart from working on the garden and my studio, I had a little exhibition at Hellean.<br />
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Friends over for a meal on the 12th.</div>
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David Gentry rocks (in yellow). It was a really great night. These four lads really did the business. The atmosphere was brilliant. Sadly it's likely to be their last gig together.</div>
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The security wasn't too bad travelling from France to England the next day. It's nice to see the grandkids...</div>
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All fourteen of our grandkids waiting patiently for their Christmas presents.</div>
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Kids are now having their own time with each other watching films, playing games and catching up with each other elsewhere in the house. Now it's adults time to open their Secret Santa presents. It was really nice. Not sure what was happening here. </div>
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Setting out the thanksgiving meal after the blessing of baby Eleanor Jose.</div>
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It was an incredible family gathering...possibly the best ever. The house was just bursting with love.</div>
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Today is Sunday and the weather is glorious. Even Sunderland losing 6-2 won't put a dampener on things.<br />
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It was the same last week, although Sunderland did win. We spend so much time out front that we ought to bring the table and chairs round from the patio.</div>
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We insulated and boarded the winter studio during the week as the weather wasn't too good. We also completely tidied the shed...a BIG job!</div>
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Sandwiched between working on the bread oven Halloween at Le Bono.</div>
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The walnuts are still dropping.</div>
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I love the colour of these leaves. This was less than 6" tall when we planted it, and the silver birch (far right) was even shorter when it was decapitated two years ago.</div>
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Well, here we are on the first of November and the car registered 22 degrees when we got in it to drive Gary home.</div>
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Current view from D&E's bathroom. You can see light through the trees now.</div>
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Quite a difference, but when it's all cleared, it'll be bathed in sunlight and more pleasant to walk in than we think.</div>
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I finished Madonna's latest book 'Serendipity', which includes two of my stories. Madonna Dries Christensen that is...not the singer.</div>
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Ken Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659672111856249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2687269124795443524.post-82731651499955683692015-10-22T20:23:00.000+01:002015-10-22T20:23:01.134+01:00All alone again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our final visitors for the year should now be on their way to Sunderland, having been picked up from East Midlands Airport. We've been fortunate with the weather.<br />
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Boarding in late October surely can't be that much fun.</div>
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How Sophie's barn used to look.</div>
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Sophie's barn finished.</div>
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Early evening boules.</div>
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Emm falling over the barrier. Aimee wins with me second.</div>
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Devastation in Yvon's woods.</div>
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This area leading up to Yvon's wood cabin was thick with trees a few days ago. I'll go and take some daytime photos when they've finished. It's all very sad to see.</div>
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A trip to Lizio's Economusee yesterday.</div>
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These contraptions are amazing...all fully moving with bells , drums and whistles. The place is packed inside and out with this sort of thing.</div>
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We're off to the airport tomorrow... can't believe how quickly the time has flown. The big bonus was the willingness of our visitors to help us to get rid of this mound...while still having a fun holiday.<br />
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It looks really small, but in reality it wasn't. We tried to shape it over the past year or so...</div>
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but it didn't work. The weeds just grew again and we didn't really know what to do with it.</div>
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Reclaimed and almost ready to seed. The wall will need building properly, but for now we can enjoy a well earned rest.</div>
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Thanks, Michael, Emm and Aimee (and Bev)...you've been brilliant!</div>
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Saturday was a chill day. We visited Josselin market, had lunch out and picked up another load of slate from Rod. The afternoon was spent seeding the back garden and trying to get rid of wasps.<br />
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After church today we took a walk around Quiberon and a couple of places on the way back home.<br />
While we were doing this, our 14th grandchild was being born...Eleanor Josie.<br />
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And here she is... baby Eleanor Josie Poulton. Well done Juli... and congratulations to you both!</div>
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Ken Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659672111856249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2687269124795443524.post-82695160100498805082015-10-16T20:09:00.001+01:002015-10-16T20:09:40.320+01:00Changes all around.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We spent the day over towards Lorient with Dave and Annie, but things were happening while we were away.<br />
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Actually, this photo was from yesterday...changing the shape of the garden...</div>
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and this one...</div>
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and this... I'm standing on ground that was previously a bank.</div>
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And this one of Michael and Bev. There's some lovely colour coming through in the flower bed.</div>
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All day long there was noise from Yvon's woods. We'll have to investigate tomorrow.</div>
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The girls played cards last night.</div>
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Look what's happening next door. All the old planks are gone and a concrete base has been laid.</div>
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When we got back, they'd made good progress. Can't wait to see what happens tomorrow.</div>
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It's getting dark but we just had to have a nosy in Yvon's woods. This is the brute that was making the noise yesterday.</div>
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Over 300 trees have been cut down.</div>
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This section of the woods is unrecognisable.</div>
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So much open space. Therese, Marina and Yukki who we passed on the lane are sad to see it all change.</div>
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I'd just come down from spraying the wasps nest tonight to find the girls toasting marshmallows.</div>
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Yummy!!</div>
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I unwrapped my copy which was delivered to England and brought back to France by Bev yesterday.</div>
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I'm on page 87 already. Fascinating!</div>
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My commission is finished and has been picked up, so I'm free!</div>
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Aimee struggling with the pick-axe.</div>
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Ken Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659672111856249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2687269124795443524.post-30422810269834664812015-10-06T20:18:00.002+01:002015-10-06T20:18:16.777+01:002nd October<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We visited Sarzeau for our anniversary as well as all the little coves and harbours around that area.<br />
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The weather was considerably better than our wedding day 39 years earlier.</div>
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Monday was all mine...<br />
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Walls, ceilings, panelling, windows, doors, skirting. All painted...two coats.</div>
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Bev went back to LeBono today to clean the windows, floors, tables and anything else that needed cleaning before they open tomorrow. I stayed home to finish the roof.</div>
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All tiling finished and watertight for winter. Just the facia tiling to do, but that isn't urgent. I've been very lucky to have such glorious weather. It was a joy to do this side as the morning sun is on my back to keep me feeling toasty.</div>
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Let's start with Bev's birthday.<br />
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The petals on the table are real...freshly picked from just outside the door. The rest are plastic (it's the thought that counts). I made her breakfast and propped her mail against a glass of juice before I called her. Later, Dave and Annie treated us to a Chinese buffet at Pontivy.</div>
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We've spent most of the week at LeBono helping to decorate a creperie for friends. It was really hard work with long hours, but it's coming on nicely. All of the orange is gone. It all looks quite classy now. (sorry...no pics). They open next Thursday and there's still a lot to do.</div>
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Filling the dips.</div>
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but I forgot to put the edging strip along the bottom to raise the first row, so off they came. I've capped the top of the chimney to stop rain from getting in during winter. I knew those big ceramic bathroom tiles would come in handy one day. Not long now before it's all watertight. I'm looking forward to Monday and the whole day spent on the roof.</div>
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We had the Jeromes for lunch today (the Creperie owners). After two hours at the table we were ready for a walk in Yvon's woods. Yvon was there with his wife so we had a really good chat. The kids loved feeding the goldfish and checking out the different mushrooms. Yvon told us which ones were edible, so the Jeromes picked a few for breakfast. If they're still alive next week, we'll try some :</div>
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This is my painting week, but there was still progress on the roof.<br />
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Just look at the size of our molehills! Actually, we are having help here getting rid of that bank of soil. It's handy for filling dips and topping up the flowerbeds.</div>
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We were surprised to learn that a lot of it was bombed by the Americans in WW2, thinking the Germans were holed up there...they were elsewhere. Fortunately they didn't destroy it all.</div>
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We visited a number of galleries as well as interesting little shops.</div>
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