Little-log-cabin

Allons-y!

En route in Amsterdam airport after a delayed flight.  A piece was found to be missing from the starboard wing of our plane in Montreal.  Although the pilot declared that he was ready to fly the Atlantic as it was - perhaps with the aid of some Duck tape - Boeing restricted him to having a part fabricated and fitted.  We were 1.5 hours late in leaving and thus in arriving.

The inevitable sad and ultimately rushed (by us) departure from 107, as ever wonderfully helped by K & D who drove us to the airport via a "smoke meat" lunch.  Contact already from our girls - great :-)

Just waiting for the onward flight home.

All done!

Le fin de l'affaire (the end of the affair)

Well, that's it!  Many little tasks today; we delightfully Skype chatted to I and Nat - reading fairy stories over 3 and a half thousand miles; Ali sealed the edge between the logs and the concrete block-work; I went to the village, bought anti-freeze for the loos, and mouse-bait and the final caulking and filled up with gas and and gas-anti-condensation liquid; D and I put the car in the barn and  the battery in the house; I "Energy Sealed" around the Meadow-wall windows. 


Ali cleaned the ground floor (she's already done upstairs); and then, la piece de la resistance, Neighbours came in for drinks and nibbles and chat - all in French.  Heaven!





The colours are magnificent now.  Here's the village in all its Fall glory.

Off tomorrow.


Excited and sad both - the sign of a good trip!

Pinch, punch! (the first of the month).

October is with us, and our departure rushes on to us. 


The place really does look lovely – it will be great to spend time here in the future, D.V.

But Sunday and today have been busy days with plenty of happy things to do.  The weather has continued to be kind and K has finished the windowsills, Ali has started the (mammoth) house-cleaning (listen!  We’ve been living in a building site for weeks, OK?)  Claude has collected his scaffolding – bless the man – SUCH a help that was.  D has carted all those little Christmas trees off into the wood....

I have concreted some broken wall and pruned (savaged really) our apple tree.  The poor thing is tucked in to the edge of the wood and lacks light.  It fruited heavily three years ago but did nothing at all either last year or this year.  It was very tall, spindly and with lots of verticals.  So we took the ladder and the chain saw up the hill, which would have been a real puff when we first arrived, and clipped and reduced and took at least fifteen feet off it.  At least it looks pickable now.  Although it’s in a clearing, there are a host of conifers to the south-east and South-west of it as well as maples abutting it to the South.  Ok as frost protection but no good for the light.  So we shall revisit next year and open up the space.

 A has cleaned gutters and set the leaf-guards for the barrage that is to come. 

Here’s a picture from K which sums up what Fall here, and vacations, should be about.

Bye for now!