Author: telboy2

The wet zone

Back to the garden.

As the land gets so wet in the autumn and winter such that, the pond area overflows with water and the area adjacent becomes the supplementary pond, we decided to put in plants that should tolerate the water well and fight the overwhelming grass. So to a wet garden zone.

The first stage has been to clear the area of grass: cutting first and digging out the roots next. And so the area looks like:

So the earth is prepared and we await the new plants- about 300euro worth!

Let’s hope it works.

Lac de Guerlédan

A scorching day – 32C and time to try out the locale after spending so much time doing jobs.

Only just over 5km but a lot of effort in the heat. Lunch at Beau Rivage.

Recent visit

I recently went to say hello.

As ever it was a bit sad. Not because of M&D but because of the unattended graves – people who were interred at the same time as my dad. The child of three months and the woman in her 50s who have never had a permanent headstone. Sad.

Kitchen Transformation

It has been a slow process but the new kitchen has been installed. Work still to do but it does make for a significant improvement.

From the choosing of the new kitchen months ago, to the removal of the old, living with the microwave as a friend and the basin tap, sanding the floors to the new set up. A lot of time and effort and stress in organising the repairs of the walls after my damage in removing the tiles and the plumber and electrician.

So the state of destruction:

To the progress of renewal:

More election news

Claire was the candidate in Spelthorne- the ex seat of Kwasi Kwarteng- the short lived Chancellor who, with the aid of Liz Truss, is credited with ‘crashing the economy’. His majority was 18,000 and the seat was held by the Tories by 1,500.

AP did a lot of work in the streets and got me out the day before the election to help. Good fun in the end knocking on doors and talking to people.

UK election

Of course a bit late. The election took place on Thursday as usual- July 4.

Labour won as was widely expected but with a huge majority.

The results:

And this was the prediction early on on the evening from the exit polls. Thankfully Reform did nit get 13 seats as predicted early on.

I do not feel excited by the change. It was widely expected – though the calling of the election by Sunak at this time was a surprise to nearly all people. I have a sense of relief that the dreadful Tories are gone. Useless, divisive and corrupt.

West London

Back in familiar places.

A week back in town. It was meant to be a controlled arrival but because cancelled flight by EasyJet- a mad dash in the car to Le Shuttle- a 9 hour journey. Reached the Perce at 2am.

The plan to work with some locum days at W7 and time for a bit of social time- AP birthday and a Monty curry.

I will squeeze in a trip to the dentist and some Pilates.

Plus it is election week- all action.

Visitor

The lad came to stay for nearly a week. He was lovely company, a good worker painting the kitchen and we managed a day out to the Pink Granite Coast.

I have to admit my memory failed a bit and we went to the wrong place first. In the end we managed to find Trégastal. The weather was not quite scorching but did improve. Nice desert.