The passage of time in Wellington and elsewhere
The shipping container with the items we sent back from NZ arrived in Rotterdam about two weeks ago and turned up at the house yesterday in a big lorry. Not so much stuff, bit still, along with beds and memory boxes, the kitchen table which has been back and forth over the last 20 plus years in back in place.
This week the night sky is in the news as seven planets are due to align and are visible – not all with the naked eye. However some are easy to see. The above shows Venus after sunset but before proper darkness. A little later when Venus was close to the horizon Neptune and Mars were easily visible. Along with other stars. A clear night.Great.
Children number one and three came to stay- with an apparent trying journey via Edinburgh, Paris and to the pick up on Friday evening at Saint Brieuc.
It was good to see them. EQ’s second visit and IQ’s fifth I think. It was a planned repeat Christmas celebration as number 1 was working for the real event.
So we had lots for food, drink and a total of three films. We walked around the local area but squeezed in a walk along the Brest- Nantes canal. Hot choc, food and the company ‘Barry’ the begging bird.
I had to take some pictures for a nice piece of bureaucracy. We are planning to change the windows of the remaining originals. It has come to our notice that we need to do a ‘declaration’- not a ‘permis de contruire’ but it seems like permission to me. Somewhat ridiculous. I could not do the applicaton online as I could not see all that I needed to do. I sent to La Mairie’ and it seems photos are part of the requirements. Already the process is getting on my nerves.
Anyway she said the house looked ‘jolie’. Ans I suppose it does.
One of our longer ones and at the same time we are exploring our local area. This is a walk of the chapels centred on Neulliac, just south of Mûr de Bretagne. The route is 22 km but we took a slightly different route and so only 18km. Beautiful church at one point, nice walk along the Blavet with the tumbling down building visible. Plus a memorial to resistance fighters killed in a battle in 1944.
Mixing it up a little today with the first trip on the bike for a while. A relatively short circuit of 10km. Limited a little by brake rubbing problem which I am yet to fix properly. A nice morning though with fresh air, rising sun and cold cheeks.
All followed by a late afternoon walk as a couple. We happened to a local woman aged 87 who was out for her own walk and wanted a chat.
