Tony and I went out on Tuesday to get some building bits and pieces so that we were well organised for our stonemasons when they began their work as agreed with them (in English) on ‘Wednesday 24th’.
So it was that we returned on Tuesday 23rd at around 3pm to discover our stonemasons had started bright and early on that day - when I said (in broken french), ‘Oh hello! We thought you were starting tomorrow’, he replied back in broken english, ‘No - we agreed - the 24th - so here we are’! I let that go and made a mental note to make all future agreements in both languages because apparently his english numbers are as good as our french ones (not very)!
Thankfully, we hadn’t had a change of heart after our weekend away and we were still keen to press on with the ‘piggery project’ and now, 3 days later, we have a massive hole in the back wall (a quadruple french window/door will be installed eventually) and the makings of a beautiful back terrace being built with stones salvaged from the destruction of the wall. Photos below are of the back wall when we left Tuesday morning and what it now looks like on Friday morning after just 3 days work - we’re quite impressed with the progress and although Tony thinks I’m a little hasty, I’ve already begun picking out bathroom fixtures and fittings for the future ‘home’ this piggery is to become for visiting friends and family!
As mentioned in yesterday’s blog, we went out with some friends yesterday afternoon (photo below of Tony with Bob & Sandrine) to visit a beautiful place called Sarlat, a little further south, we had a lovely wander around the town and then popped to a nearby chateau with extensive gardens - every Thursday from 8pm, they open the chateau and gardens to the public and put hundreds of little candles along all the paths and in addition they have I think 4 different groups of musicians playing at various intervals along the paths - at one point there was a group of men playing saxophones, at another place some violinists - there was of course the mandatory group of accordian players and then a few entertainers for the many children who are encouraged to participate in the evenings festivities. This all goes on until about 1am and so after a lovely afternoon and evening, we returned home at about 2am this morning to a spectacular light show of our own - lots of lightning signalling the incoming stormy weather.
This morning we discovered many of our sunflowers are lying on the ground having been battered by the rain - although aware of the oncoming storm, thankfully we both slept through it and were completely oblivious to the apparent strength of the rain - I suppose there has to be some benefit to getting to bed at 2am!
It’s still raining today so we shall be working indoors and I imagine if it dries up for the weekend, I shall be spending the better part of it in the veggie patch tackling the never ending task of more weeding.
Bon weekend!
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