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Published: September 15th 2013
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After the big day out yesterday we were ready for a stay at home day and a good lay in this morning.
The weather still wasn’t warm enough to be in the sunroom for breakfast so we made do with the kitchen table. It’s lucky we don’t have a newspaper to read at breakfast because the table is just big enough for our plates and spreads and a coffee cup.
We did some washing (I should say Gretchen did some washing) and made good use of the washing line out on the lawn. This is a bit of a luxury as we have made do mostly with stringing clothes up in the shower using the nifty little twisted clothes line that has travelled with us for many years.
The day was partly overcast with a hint of sun and so we are hopeful that we will have some nice air dried clothes to pack away for further wearing.
The morning passed quite quickly and it was soon time for lunch.Gretchen, in the true tradition of the BBA, made economical use of the remainder of the two baguettes we ended up with yesterday when my request for 1
and a millefueille got lost in translation. The melted camembert and tomato (always got to be a tomato somewhere for lunch) was tasty and we passed part of the afternoon away reading before we took a short drive to Chabris to visit the supermarket.
We got back just in time to get the washing in as the sky had darkened and light rain was falling.
The rain sort of sealed what we would do for the rest of the afternoon and that was to continue reading and enjoying our cosy cottage surroundings.
The rain cleared before it was time to start thinking about dinner and so we thought we had better get some exercise with a walk to the next hamlet with the idea of going further and completing a circuit back to our hamlet. It was going to mean a 4 or 5km walk along the one lane roads but as there was so little traffic we didn’t see any problem.
Gretchen had spotted on our arrival, some sunflowers that had not yet gone past the heads up flowering stage as most of the other plantations we have passed since getting back into sunflower country
again.
So we wandered into the field of sunflowers to get the angles we wanted for photo and video. It was the best opportunity we had had to do this undisturbed but it was a shame that the sun was not shining to give the ‘smiling’ sunflowers that much more depth.
In the next hamlet there were a couple of run down looking houses with outbuildings that were for sale and we joked that perhaps we might like to make enquiries as to the price and make one of them our ‘home in the sun’! What a great do up for our two sons-in-law, Cormac and Brent to have as a project when they come to visit us!!
With the sky darkening over again we abandoned the idea of a circuit walk back home and instead retraced our steps back to the cottage making it home just as the rain came back again.
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