Saturday, August 07, 2004
Three gite change
Saint Gaétan
All the animals profit from a gite changeover day, especially when we have all three gites to change, like today. The guests leave bread, vegetables and salad stuff which makes great chicken, goose and duck food. The goat is partial to the odd carrot or apple as well. I'm partial to the odd beer, but we don't get left many of those.
Maybe it's all the food scraps, but the ducklings have really grown much larger. They are almost too fat to get through the fencing. When they were small they used to wander out of the enclosure through the squares in the fencing, Lucy the goose gave a quick honk, and back they would waddle. Now they are larger they seem to spend much more time in the pond catching flying insects.
Finished the carrelage round the fireplace this afternoon. The hole was skimmed yesterday and the tiles laid in the evening and then this afternoon finished off with grout. Just the stonework under the hearth and I can re-fit the wood burner.
Had a good curry evening the other night with an English friend from the the next village who is a CORGI registered plumber now living in France. He's thinking of setting up a business as a Brittany Plumber, so if you need a good English speaking plumber in the Dinan area mail me.
BTW, For the summer evening what better than a cruise in a convertible. I happen to have another friend selling a LHD 2003 Peugeot 206 Cabriolet 2.0 in Silver for 16,000€. A topless pocket rocket.
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Three gite change
