Wildlife and Workshops

20 novembre, not so much a red letter, rather a red squirrel day today, as a lovely chap or chapess with an enormous fluffy tail ran right across the gate and into the rose bush in front of the little house this afternoon. Yet another attraction to mention on the website under wildlife and Monsieur, Madame or Mademoiselle Busy Tail joins the resident ranks of lizards, butterflies and numerous birds who share our space, as well as the large grey and white cat that seems to like sleeping in the back garden.  

We have been thinking how to attract further welcome guests into La Clos de la Rose, through planting and environment enrichment. We rather like the idea of a wild flower meadow, well perhaps a small patch of garden than meadow and a pond which can become home to aquatics and wandering dragonflies. We suspect our two cats will appreciate any fish we may be foolish enough to supply for them, as Magic and Misty will soon learn to hunt lizards too, much to our annoyance, but, hey, a cat’s gonna do what a cat’s gotta do!

On the building front, things are slowly progressing. The kitchen floor is still reducing in levels, now looking like a partially excavated basement and with the arrival of my half lifelong friend and old car and builder buddy, my workshop (strictly old cars!) has been taken over as his woodworking shop, as Mr Beast exerts his influence and finds a cosy place to park his white van!

We spent a day and a half buying and then fitting some agricultural looking building supplies to make the workshop secure from a home insurance point of view, as the bride so disliked all my tools, ladders and scaffold being stored in the kitchen. Personally, I felt more in touch with the project being so close to the means to build it, but I could see her point and the manly objects of creation now rest rather appropriately and dare I say even seductively in the workshop, ready for action at the drop of a hard hat.

Laters,

LC