telboy2 – Page 5 – A Few Quirkes

The Orchard

The apple and pear trees have blossom, so more than others but a success all the same.

Another tree is being collected tomorrow to add to the collection and complete thecircle

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.

Shaz and her serre

Shaz’s dream has been constructed. A high quality item made in Finistère which is more robust than the ones in the garden centre type places. After reading the insructions and watch the videos lots of times, she put it up with great success.

Sky time

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 do travel for Christmas

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.

Jolie

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.

Sunday special walk

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.