The bride et moi are very much looking
forward with great anticipation to the return of our ‘honoured guest’ (see 17th May 2012 blog post, our most viewed) and his beautiful and talented wife in a
couple of weeks time for a few days of frivolity. I’m therefore working
particularly hard to get the place looking as good as it can. Having just
completed the barn roof a week ahead of schedule, we’re due to start the
external rendering to the gites next week and I pray that all goes well and the
scaffolding will be down by the time Alistair and June arrive! I’m also looking
forward to finally being able to take some really attractive photographs for
the website, as the courtyard will then be looking at its best since we started
this adventure.
The weather continues to head from spring to summer with some splendid hot days over the last two weeks, often in the early 30s and it's only just May! My favourite sister and brother in law were here for the start of the good weather and Maggie gave me the shortest hair I’ve sported for over two years and Roger did so many electrical jobs, I lost count! I’m liking the new hair style mind you and it’s much cooler in this heat!
The front garden, bordering the street has now being
planted with a mixture of carefully selected plants, including Paleine grass,
from which we think our street name may well be derived. The bride carried out
research on the street name and found out about the grass which turned out to
be sufficiently interesting to the village historical society, that she was
directly quoted regarding her discovery, in the president’s blog.
Molina Caerulea Moorhexe
We are now, unsurprisingly, on good terms
with several local wine domains and have discovered that we can sell direct to
our clients and have been offered supplies from one of our favourites (they all
are really). We also want to provide accompanied vineyard and dégustation visits for those guests who speak little French, or may be daunted
by the prospect of turning up at a vineyard expecting to be entertained . . .
something we enjoy doing on a regular basis! I also intend to make good use of
our Traction (as soon as it's French registered) in this capacity, to add a
little nostalgic flavour to a vineyard visit.
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| All aboard for the wine tour, beep, beep ! |
Staying on the wine front, we are fortunate to be able to have a
rare private dégustation, organised by some close friends, at the nearby
Chateau de Passavant, where owner and wine maker Francois, who speaks perfect
English, will be able to talk at length about organic wine, the terroir and
also the local history behind ‘Fulk Nerra’, the Black Falcon. It sounds both
intriguing and interesting and I’ve been looking for an opportunity to meet
Francois for a long time now. We may have to buy a few bottles, such a hardship!
May has seen a rise in the number of gîte
enquiries and we've just taken a booking for early June, so I now have even
more incentive to make our little slice of village life and tranquillity truly
memorable for our visitors.
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| Tonight's dinner |
More soon, including the newly rendered gites and lush grass in
the orchard and gardens and the move into the depths of the barn . . . watch this space . . .
A bientôt,
LC
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