A stormy weekend!

 Hello Friends!

On Saturday the weather was terrible, we had the end of the hurricane coming from the pacific humberto which became Amy a violent storm (3 people died in Europe)

It went through England, Ireland and Scotland before reaching France. Fortunately our son was not in Scotland with the boys! They are leaving on Friday. They will do hiking on the west coast and on skye island in the Hebrides. I went there twice and it is beautiful!

On Saturday morning it was still ok so we went out to my favourite clothes shop to spend a voucher I received some time ago. Then we went to a garden center  which is now having a small restaurant and the wind began to blow !

It was as if the  greenhouse was going to blast! Then it was difficult to stand outside and hold the car doors. At home it was intense but did not last very long ( fortunately!)

In the garden center there is an English double decker bus transformed in a restaurant .

And an old Citroen car cut in two pieces with a bench in the middle. They serve ordinary food but it is cheap, friendly and quick.

On Sunday, we went to Rouen to visit our daughter. She is still using crutches to walk and she still has pain , but she had a MIR yesterday and there is nothing wrong with her back only a muscle tear.

Today, I am going out to do a little shopping to get some supply for my watercolour and try to walk inside on my treadmill and read my book. This afternoon a company is coming to clean the drains outside.

This is all for today. Thank you for coming.

Autumn cleaning before the weekend.

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Today, I am glad I finished the dusting of the Maileg house! Two hours! So a little bit of more time to decorate it for Fall.

 All is cleaned! At the same time I worked on the first floor. The windows and dusting is done ✔️ ( by the time it’s done upstairs, I will have to clean downstairs …!!)

But it’s done for the moment.

Well now lunch and then reading and watercolour.

I hope you enjoy your weekend, thank you for visit!

This and that…

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Today I’m drinking my coffee in my William Morris “Art and Craft” mug.

Yesterday, I nearly cleaned all the windows, some are left for today. It will soon be the weekend and our shopping day to the market to get fresh fruit and vegetables.

Yesterday I also started this watercolour from a house in Normandy “Pont-l’Eveque”

I also baked a French bread

 Today the weather is still fine, late Summer! This weekend we are going to visit our daughter and see if she is a little better after her Marathon.

Thank you for visiting!

Happy 😊 October !

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Look at the sky!Beautiful for a first of October. We had the weeping willow trimmed in Spring but it is becoming SO huge again.

Autumn colours hydrangeas 

It’s already Christmas at “ Country living”!

Beautiful magazine as usual.

Reading a thriller before I give it to our daughter. Our daughter injured herself while the Marathon a muscle tear

So she has to rest and read no running. But she goes to work with crutches. Bad luck! I hope it will rapidly heal.

Daphne’s diary is a Dutch magazine and has little paper decoupages inside and many interesting things inside.

 While watching tv at night I like to cut and glue what’s inside the magazine 😂 

This morning was downstairs window cleaning, yogurt making and bread baking.

Thank you for your visits!

( the tiny apples are not eatable to answer your questions only for decorating)

Busy Monday, lazy rest of the week!

View from my bedroom window .

Last September morning! It will be sunny and cool today

Can you see the bird flying ? On top so tiny.

A parcel will be sent tomorrow for the grandchildren.

They like soft and warm pyjamas I find in the Netherlands.🇳🇱 rabbit 🐰 pyjamas!

They live in a very hot country, but with the AC they are sometimes cold and if I hurry they’ll have them to go to Scotland.

This is one bag of the windmill flour.

In the book there are 45 different shops from different countries 

One is a shop from Normandy I may start by it.

( in Pont l’Eveque)

( source: from this book)

 Hello Friends!

Yesterday I had no time to do watercolour because all my time was spent in the kitchen cooking ! Stuffed butternuts, stuffed sweet potatoes, apple and cherry crumble. Spinach and endives all from the Saturday market. I froze some of the meat I bought at the butcher and now I have got to cook for tonight. Tomorrow yogurt making and a kind of cottage cheese for the week. I have also pumpkin 🎃 soup with my soup maker! 

I bought some flour from the windmill in the Netherlands and I may bake our bread again. But as I bought two new watercolour books to exercise I must practice tomorrow and read my new books . so many projects! In fact, I love Autumn and winter when I can stay inside and read or paint any DIY!

As you can see it’s the end of the day and still sunny 🌞 

Thank you for your visit!

Like a Monday.

These aren’t cherries but little decorative apples. This is the first crop, plenty again on the little tree! Too much this year the branches are bending a lot.

So cute these tiny apples!

Hello Friends !

These flowers are not from my garden, but from the little market on Saturday in the village next to ours.

I bought my weekly vegetables to a man who has a big garden and sell his vegetables and fruits every Saturday

He even grow sweet potatoes.

I love their colour so bright . When we were in the Netherlands we saw a field full  of dahlias.

This is from our garden cyclamens that are spreading

In our little wood part.

Yesterday I did not do much in the afternoon except follow our daughter’s race on my phone! She did the 42 kms but had to walk for t the two last kms being exhausted.

It was her first marathon, so I think it’s quite good to finish it.

Today, is cooking day!

I have to cook spinach, beans, tomatoes… and freeze some meat for the coming week. Then continue dusting…

The laundry is done, and finally watercolour if I have some time left.

Have a nice week and thank you for your visit!

 

Rouen Marathon and this and that…

Bravo 🎉 Maud!!! First one.

This is our daughter Mount Blanc hike they went in Switzerland and Italy.🇮🇹 

Hello Friends !

Yesterday, we did our shopping 🛍️ in different places and going through a village I noticed this cemetery decorated wall. I found it very poetic and the cemetery looks less sad as usual. Our cows from Normandy and the peaceful landscape looks nice on this particular place.

 On another subject, our daughter is running the Rouen Marathon today! She did a semi marathon but never a marathon. She trained for one year getting up at 5 AM before going to work. Now I am following her on my phone and she did half way 10 kms already! The next 20 ones will be the most difficult and Mum is a bit stressed!

Now she did 26 kms! She just comes from a Mountain hike and just had Covid I hope everything goes well for her!

Our son is preparing his trip to Scotland with the two boys

Well ten hours flight from Dubai !

It’s nice to be young! Don’t you think so??

Thank you for visiting !