A beautiful place!

Hello Friends !

Today, we should have been to visit a painting exhibition exhibition in Giverny, but as it was warm and very sunny I chose to visit the « Chateau of Miromesnil » were the writer Guy de Maupassant had spent three years near Dieppe on the Normand coast. This castle dates back to the 17 Century.

I love castles and it is always with pleasure that I visit one! I already visited it with our children a long time ago.

The castle is surrounded by by a wide moat full of water in the past.

I also like the architecture 

The two big sort of vases on top right were filled with oil and lit at night to embellish the castle 

On the first floor there are five guest rooms.

This is the entrance of the big vegetable garden

There is a mix of vegetables and flowers , the garden is surrounded by high brick walls to protect it and keep it warm

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Mr L  coming to join me and help me to go down some stairs.

Rhubarb ! 😋 lots of of jam and crumbles!

 Such lovely roses so perfumed 

It should be at the end of the day a little walk by the sea!

Some of the inside of the castle 

The beds were short because they prefer to sleep sitting up rather than lying down ( only dead people were lying down!)

This is the back of the castle  it’s a different style 

In the little chapel these chapel and statues are from the 12 Century. A Middle aged castle was on the place before and had been destroyed during religious wars.

This is the chapel

Back of the castle .

H hope you enjoyed the visit! Two more days to go and visit places, but rain is arriving 😔 we will think about where to go! See you soon.

Roses and weekend .

Hello Friends.

Today no rain, but cold. As every morning I am watching the news and then I must go grocery shopping because we are going to have a new three days weekend with “rain” again!

Tomorrow I will have to cook.

During the weekend we will go to Giverny. There is a new exhibition in the Giverny painting museum and we may try the seaside if the rain is not too heavy ( or stay home…)

On Saturday we are taking Bandit to the vet to take its cone out and unstitched after his surgery.

I will be busy so in advance I wish you a good weekend!

My pupal rose bush was not feeling too well since I planted it, but this year they are ( in fact too of them) beautiful with many flowers and a wonderful perfume!

Colombines are blooming

I think a spider 🕷️ is sleeping inside the rose!

New peony  bush is starting to bloom.

Difficult times

( picture taken from this book)

Happy May!

 Hello friends,

Today, little Maxime is not going to school. Because of the war he is schooling at home. I hope our grandchildren will not have too much stress. Not for the moment but the alerts being very loud they must ask questions. No school until the 8th for the moment…

No more planes for the moment.

Yesterday there has been five alerts and it is a worry for us. We are following the situation from far away. 

Today, it will be raining and I am glad they came yesterday to repair the garage roof which was damaged by hail.

Last night I found the phone number of an arborist to see if I can save my tree.🌳 I ‘ll phone her today. ( thank you Linda for the advice).

I hope everything will settle  one day 

To have a peace of mind back for everyone.

Our grandchildren should come in August???

Hope you’ll enjoy your day!

Monday news.

Hello friends,

Yesterday we should have been to Giverny’s painting museum, but as the weather was very bad it would have been difficult to walk two kms from the car park under a heavy rain. So as we have another three days weekend at the end of the week we decided to go somewhere else.

It’s the time of Medieval shows ( I am not a great fan) but it was on our way and I thought it would interest my husband.

During this weekend I told you I had got some silk flowers from the little decoration shop.

Here it is. So I don’t cut my garden flowers.

Since two years I have a big problem with our  linden tree. The picture is our tree now in Spring and Summer.

This picture  was our tree before. Is it climate change, too much heat, or is it ill? It is very critical. Some of the leaves at the bottom are of a normal size and they are of a very small size on top??? If you have any ideas…