Another week. Another blog, and what a hot week this has been.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday all registered temperatures of over 30 degrees
with a slight lessening to 28 degrees on Saturday. Phew! Too hot for me.
However there were things to be done so we just had to try to ignore the
weather and get on with it. On Wednesday I chickened out as we only had to
fetch Courtney from school. She has now finished for the (school) year and has
improved her French sufficiently well to be promoted to the next year. Well
done, my girl!
On Thursday we HAD to go shopping for groceries as we were
expecting guests for the weekend and needed some fresh supplies. Actually it
wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be as the supermarket was blissfully cool
inside. After lunch, Courtney took advantage of the neighbours kind offer of
the use of their pool and came back looking all refreshed, then put up the sun
umbrella, laid out her towel and a pillow and settled in for an afternoon of
tanning and reading. Summer has definitely arrived!
We had been putting off doing some serious cleaning for
quite a while, but with visitors expected who had not seen the house before, we
didn’t really want to show it off under a layer of dust so all three of us got
stuck in and swept, vacuumed, wiped and polished until the house was sparkling
again and we were totally pooped! Courtney was a star and managed to keep going
much longer than Neels or I did, but she has got youth on her side!
Our guests duly arrived as planned having had a fearsome
battle with the GPS built in to their hire car and lacking any sort of map.
Eventually they stopped at a suitable place and bought themselves a map after
which things became a little less chaotic in the car. Our visitors are an
Australian cousin (?) we have not seen for about eight years or more and her
new husband whom we have never met before. We quickly decided that this is not the
ideal house for him as he is six foot three and we have a lot of exposed beams
at about six foot two! Mind you, he doesn’t seem to be too concerned about it
and says that he is slowly getting used to low beams in France. No doubt, one whack
at a time!
The Sunday morning market in Villeneuve was a good reason to
drag everyone out of bed at a reasonable time and was it busy?!! There was good
turnout of stalls and Cousin Carla was persuaded to buy some strawberries,
raspberries and cherries all wonderfully fresh, sweet and juicy.
Our veggie patch is coming on with the sweetcorn now about a
metre high and the tomatoes are looking good with four little fruits so far. Our
fig tree has recovered from being badly burnt by frost in the cold weather and
has small fruits on it for the second time. I am not going to escape the
jam-making at the end of the year this time. I had better start collecting some
bottles, I think.
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