Sunny Saturday

Sunday 9th April

It has been a wonderful sunny Saturday.  The week has been very good, the weather improving every day and today it was absolutely wonderful.  In England this may well have been one of the best days of the entire Summer, and we are only just into Spring here in the Dordogne.  Wall to wall sunshine today.  You could almost hear the sound of hands scrabbling in thousands of wardrobes, dragging out sandals and shorts.  And the air was full of the sound of lawns being mown and hedges clipped as we took advantage of the wonderful weather to try to stop some of this mad Spring growth, or at least contain it’s excesses.

I had mown the lawn yesterday but had a rose bush to plant.  We are gradually tidying up the quite large garden we got with the house; there were three metre high ( three posts of one metre ) metal posts with a wire fence attached.  This was half buried under the thick hedge that grows around three sides of the garden, but a bit of an eyesore.  The posts were buried, I eventually discovered, at least a foot and a half in the ground, and the limited access meant it was a tough job extricating them.  I even bent one of the prongs of the garden fork trying to dig them up.  Got there eventually.  Well, it was me or the posts, and I wasn’t giving up.  Exhausting work, but very satisfying.  A trip to the decheterie is looming soon.

And to wrap up the day we will be going to see Kenny belt out a few songs and have a curry from the Bombay Busserie at Allemans tonight.  Great Day…here comes Summer.