Thursday 23 May 2024

Swinging between rain and sunshine today. The rain builds up in big black clouds moves in then dumps in huge droplets, then stops. Temperature goes down, then up again as the sun comes out. So, it’s been a day of cleaning, washing and cutting down the fir tree. Well, at least starting on the tree.

Friday 24 May 2024

Guess what? Today is Empire Day. Well, it used to be when I was at school. Then it became Commonwealth day. Now its nothing. So, on that note, we went shopping for some gear Lady P will need when she walks the Portuguese Camino in October. A very successful trip it was too. A new backpack, bright blue; the last in store; and 30% discount. Then on to the materiele store for some bags of pre mix concrete. 'Beton premelange', says Google. ‘Ah, tres sacks Beton, eh, monsieur?” They just call it Beton here and it’s cheap. €14 for 3 x 30kg bags. These were turned into concrete, hand mixed in the barrow and filled in some big holes in the path to our petite maison. After all that work, a cooling beverage was partaken in the sunny garden.

Picnic in the carpark in Bordeaux
Excellent Faux fillet de Boef from the butcher in St Jean d'Angely market.
One of two big holes
New back pack
One and a half bags of Beton in that hole
The rest went here. Still more to go!











Comments

  1. Anonymous24 May 2024 at 20:12

    Did you put your initials and the date in the wet concrete? Curious of Bentleigh East

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  2. Anonymous25 May 2024 at 00:10

    No. The finish is "rustic" not normally how I finish paths, so the job will remain anonymous

    ReplyDelete

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