tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37122288255235083882024-03-18T22:19:04.851+01:00Livingin22My life in a small French hamlet in Brittany. The flora and fauna, the weather, veggies and polytunnel, garden flowers, neighbours, friends, cats, rabbits, hens, ducks and goats and everything else which comes into my life here in my home in St André.BrittanyGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02394869612112242296noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712228825523508388.post-71499434364946119562017-08-01T17:47:00.001+02:002017-08-01T18:05:33.621+02:00I am back in on this blogAfter two years of not being able to post on here, my Workaway, Yaems has sorted me out. Yeah!<br />
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I spent part of this morning finishing off planting up the blue ceramic pots which I use each year on the terrace and on the drive by the entrance door. </div>
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In another couple of weeks they will have filled out nicely with the heat in the polytunnel and regular watering and I'll drive them down to the garden. I've also been planting and stringing up tomato plants in the tunnel. It's getting quite busy in there now.</div>
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Each time I walk round to Rainbow Cottages in the garden I pass the wisteria on the wall of the utility house. The blooms are beautiful and the scent, absolutely delicious.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Seeing all the bright green clothing the lanes now that Spring is in full swing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. Collecting more eggs each day as the daylight hours lengthen.</span>BrittanyGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02394869612112242296noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712228825523508388.post-11005090080878520362014-05-01T00:27:00.001+02:002014-05-01T00:27:35.658+02:00A Grand Day Out in Locronan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Spending the day in a lovely place and then paddling in the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's been a busy time here in St André since my last post. My first guests of the year, German doctors living and working in Devon, arrived to stay in Middle Cottage, with their two delightful small boys. I do like having people here, it reminds me of my B&B in Cornwall where there were always new conversations to have with people from all walks of life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Gardening has occupied me too. I've finally managed to clear the polytunnel of the weeds which had grown since the last blitz I carried out. I love it when there's bare earth waiting to receive new plants. The salad leaves which had self-seeded and which I transplanted neatly into their new beds hve grown tremendously. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Most days I pick a big handful of salad both for me and for my neighbours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I just pick one or two leaves from each plant and that way it keeps on growing and supplying me for months with fresh green and red salad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The rhubarb is performing well too and I've had spinach from the veggie patch too this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The weather has been very mixed this week with hail, rain and also wonderful hot sunshine when the clouds disappeared and I got quite a colour one afternoon lying out in it when I fell asleep when intending to read. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I needed a ruthless friend to help me sort and clear the studio. Jackie came over and whittled down the contents making some sort of order in the area. So that I couldn't retrieve any of the numerous full-to-bursting black sacks and empty boxes they were put into a trailer and taken to the tip within the hour. It's so good to be able to walk in there now and see the floor! Why is it impossible to do this myself? Why do I need someone being firm with me to get rid of junk? My father was a hoarder so perhaps it is hereditary ... Being a glutton for punishment, Jackie has agreed to return and do other areas too - what a good friend!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Some of the utility area was sorted by my cleaner when she was here doing the changeover on Middle Cottage. I ended up with two grocery boxes full of empty glass jars with lids which I advertised on our local expat website. Someone I knew answered and she came over and collected them for homemade preserves also taking home with her the two cockerels born in September, who were beginning to get Spring in their steps and were constantly hitting on the hens and fighting with each other. I also managed to get her to take the latest pile of magazines I had read - result! The empty boxes, which had held the jars, I put in front of the woodburner and they were soon filled again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Today I had lunch at Bon Repos with two friends. I had a perfectly cooked entrecote "bleu" - just shown the pan - and it was lovely served with mixed, dressed salad and chips. None of us wanted pudding and as it was a really cold morning we had hot chocolate instead. We went on afterwards to a Single Mingle in Mur de Bretagne, where I sold all my eggs, and after that I drove on to buy a load cover for the Discovery which had been advertised on the same expat website where I offered the jars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The little singleton chick born last week is doing well and is definitely going to be a bantam as she's hardly changed size and is very small still and very sweet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Seeing the veggie seedlings growing so fast both in the outside raised beds and in the polytunnel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Watching a video of my gorgeous granddaughter, Mia, waving and sort-of-saying "Hello!"</span></div>
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<span id="goog_1476075115" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here they are, Mandy. </span><br />
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BrittanyGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02394869612112242296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712228825523508388.post-29235878430109521812014-04-18T19:23:00.000+02:002014-04-18T19:23:27.969+02:00Birthday visit to Cornwall <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A week away in Cornwall and now I'm back home. The weather was wonderful in England and the sun was shining still when I got back here so I'm a happy bunny who has spent most of this week sunbathing and reading - I know the hat is not high fashion, but it is essential to shield the brightness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I am just waiting for my first guests of the year to arrive for Middle Cottage. I hope they will be the first of many. I have various friends coming over this year too and I'm really looking forward to the summer months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Last night was the every 6-8 weeks quiz at St Gilles Vieux Marché. Our team came second as we often do, although we have won once in the last six months. We fall down on the sport questions as none of us has any knowledge of sport so have to work particularly hard at the rest of the quiz. It's always good meeting up with people we haven't seen for a while and having an enjoyable evening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I was posting letters in the local village this morning when Virginie from the local bar/restaurant came out and asked if I could give her some of the poppy seed from the flowers which grow amongst my vegetables. I am so happy when someone French asks me for something as I feel that I have been accepted here in my little bit of heaven. I drove home, poured some saved seed into a glass jar and popped straight back to the bar to give it Jerome, her husband. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I've just found out that a dear friend, Kathy, is going to have a heart by-pass in the UK as soon as possible. She has been ill for for a while now but they have only just correctly diagnosed her. My fingers are firmly crossed for her operation and good recovery and I can't wait to give her a big hug when she gets back to Brittany again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Hearing that my very good friend, Heather, has got her latest all clear from cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">She was sitting on 7 little white eggs - hers, and 4 brown eggs. However, on Friday I found a black hen in the top of the feed bag with the little white bantam very upset and noisy on the ground. The black hen was eating the eggs and had albumen and yolk dripping from her beak. She has been despatched as there is no way I can keep an egg-eating hen. The little white bantam was back on the reduced number of eggs, which are increasing each day with brown ones so obviously other hens are just going into the sack to lay and go. We shall see if she manages to hatch any of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. My Mothers' Day cards from Emma, Olly and Mia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Lying in the sun this morning finishing my Book Group book for tomorrow's meeting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. Believing I am finally saying goodbye to this persistent chest infection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Yesterday saw me saying goodbye to my old Discovery which I had bought from my roofer back in September 2006. It had done 243,000+ miles, 50,000 driven by me, and has been a good friend. However, it had started leaking badly and if I didn't drive it every day it needed jump starting. Once going it went on forever and I was sad to see it go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">After much thought about what might replace both the Peugeot 307cc and the Discovery, I saw an advert for a younger Discovery and went for that. Here she is in the road by Bon Repos Abbey where I went for a beer in the sunshine and then lunch on Tuesday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">There was a group of French school children on a trip out who had just settled down to eat their lunchtime filled baguettes on the area by the Nantes/Brest canal - very well behaved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">And finally the cover is on - long may it last!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Drying my washing on the garden line in the sunshine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Getting the first two blue eggs from my Araucana hens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. Driving a vehicle which has dry seats. </span></div>
BrittanyGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02394869612112242296noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712228825523508388.post-82078825352716952952014-03-09T20:21:00.001+01:002014-03-09T20:23:47.697+01:00Sunshine - hard to believe - but yes, sunshine!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Wednesday was our first sun-filled
day for so long, so I took advantage of it and cleared all of the area in and
around the polytunnel frame so that it will be ready for the new cover to go on
once my worker returns from his visit to the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trailer is now full of rubbish to go to
the déchetterie. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Below are the blue ceramic pots I use on my terrace, empty and waiting for the warmer weather to establish before I get them planted up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The following day it
was also gorgeous weather so I worked on the veggie area most of the day in the
beautiful sunshine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I planted just nine
potatoes which had sprouted in my veggie rack and sowed loads of seeds. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sowed carrot, peas, beetroot, perpetual spinach,
turnip and everlasting bunching onions straight into the ground and then globe
artichokes, butternut squash, Moneymaker tomatoes, Gardener’s Delight tomatoes,
aubergines and courgettes into seed trays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I found this
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one of three tines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This isn't a photo of mine, but it's virtually the same. </span>With this
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walking in the lane wandered into my animal/veggie area, they were doing a long
walk in the sunshine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They lived up in
the north of Brittany, he worked in agricultural <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>polytunnels and we stood in the sunshine
chatting for about 40 minutes about hens, goats and veggies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man described the wonderful computerised
set up he has at work for heating, watering etc – my eyes were green as he
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Today the temperature reached 22.7°C in the shade on the terrace. I wasn't in the shade, needless to say, but seriously sunbathing in swimsuit and listening to two weeks of The Archers recorded pocasts - bliss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The cats frequently sit beside me while I'm in the garden - here they are on the gravel next to me. I</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> read almost to the end of my current book - this has been a perfect day for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">As I walk up the lane towards the calvaire the song thrush is singing his heart out at the top of a tree. The song is so beautiful I often stand still and just listen for several minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The bergenia is blooming next to the staddlestone and looks lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I found my Drizabone hat which
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working hard all day and getting lots of stuff done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Most of my time this week has been taken up with the incubator eggs hatching. Usually they all hatch within about 24 hours of each other but this time, for reasons unknown, the first little yellow chick arrived on Monday evening and the last arrived on Thursday morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">There was a lot of uncertainty about the hatch due to the power cuts we had on Friday and Saturday last week. The temperature had dropped considerably on the Saturday and I was worried there would be no chicks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Here are some grown up chickens. Two Buff Orpingtons hens and their cockerel ready for sleep and sharing their house with a friend's four red hens. Some more Orpingtons and her little black hen are on the other side of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Here's Claude with Purrdy, enjoying a comfy cushion in the warmth of the woodburner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I think that this budding branch in the lane is a hawthorn but I can't remember well enough to be sure. I love the little red growths which look almost like berries and contrast so beautifully with the lichen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’ve been baking again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How I love to make my loaves now that I’ve
got my recipe off pat and can gather and add the ingredients without consulting
my printed reminder. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the huge china bowl with its golden yellow
outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a true Mason Cash bowl,
officially called a “cane bowl” because of the colour created by the local
clay, but a generic example which is just as good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I no
longer realise it isn’t the traditional model which my mother used and which I
used to stand by in the hope of gliding my fingers round the white glossy interior
to collect the last scrapings of raw cake mix. </span></div>
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the strong white bread flour there is always a teaspoonful of its white dust
trapped under the creases of the top fold, and the powder drifts across my
wooden kitchen table settling like snow on the verges of the lane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I so enjoy opening a fresh bag of flour and
of sugar too but I always hold the sugar bag over the sink so the grains hidden
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125g of cod per individual pie <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>2 shell-on prawns per individual pie</div>
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Petit pois<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Lemon</div>
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Cornflour<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Butter</div>
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Gently poach the fish until
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Flake a good layer of the cod
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Place two shelled prawns on
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Spoon more sauce in until it
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Add another good layer of fish
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We have also had hail and, I think overnight one night, a very light sprinkle of snow. This was left on the ground when I walked up to the field. The winds have been very strong, noisy and frightening. The rain seems to have been relentless although we have had periods of sunshine which have been lovely but too short.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There was another taste of wildlife inside at the Pub Quiz this week when a Red Admiral butterfly was flying around the room. At one point he landed on a paper I was holding but he ended up resting for about thirty minutes on one lady's white hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Experimenting with food and making something I want to eat again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Getting back into the warm and dry after dealing with the animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. Linking up two of my friends who may get together.</span></div>
BrittanyGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02394869612112242296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712228825523508388.post-16213611250043068042014-02-02T11:18:00.004+01:002014-02-02T11:18:54.533+01:00Pancakes and Fête de la Chandeleur<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fête de la Chandeleur is the Catholic holiday of Candelmas which falls 40 days after Christmas Day, on 2 February every year. This date is fixed, unlike Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day in the UK, which is tied to the moving date of Easter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The pancakes are eaten in the evening, traditionally by candlelight, and every member of the family tosses a pancake with the handicap of holding a coin in the hand they write with and using the other hand for holding the pan. A successful toss ensures prosperity in the year ahead and for farmers, a good harvest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Back in the 80s two friends and I all had birthday within four weeks of each other. We would each do lunch for the birthday girl. On my 37th birthday, my friend Viv made me stuffed pancakes which I loved ever since. I don't suppose the recipe is exactly the same as hers but this is the one I have used for the years since then. It is very popular in my family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">STUFFED PANCAKES</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Bacon - small pieces like lardons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Roast chicken in bitesize pieces or fresh chicken breasts cut into small pieces</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Onion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Frozen peas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Garlic clove</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Salt and freshly ground pepper</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Milk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Cup a soup</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Cheddar cheese</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">First make some pancakes. I usually cook mine a day in advance, making twelve for this dish which I fridge until the next day and extra for eating straightaway with sugar and lemon juice, or butter and maple syrup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Fry bacon, mushrooms, onions and a crushed garlic clove and then add chicken, peas, herbs, salt and pepper. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">If using fresh chicken put this in at the same time as the bacon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In a mug mix some cornflour with a leek and potato cup a soup and half a mug of milk. Add boiling water to top of mug and stir well before pouring over the contents of the frying pan. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Stir gently and allow the sauce to cook through. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Cool the mixture a little and use it to fill pancakes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Fold in the sides and roll into neat packages. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Place them in an ovenproof dish and cover with cheese sauce, finishing by sprinkling grated Cheddar cheese on the top. </span><br />
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BrittanyGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02394869612112242296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3712228825523508388.post-5884550440473498092014-01-31T22:42:00.003+01:002014-01-31T22:42:40.409+01:00Extreme gardening and new birds<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">My Breton
neighbours have been working hard all week clearing up the back garden, visible
from the lane, of a neighbour who hasn’t been to the property for more than
four years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looked like Sleeping
Beauty’s garden out there - completely impossible to reach the door of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The only good
thing about it were the blackberries that the huge quantity of brambles produced
around September each year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cooked down
gently with sugar they make a wonderful sauce for vanilla icecream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them must have been domesticated
plants because the huge, sweet, juicy lobes were nothing like the smaller,
harder wild ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> That same area now looks like this:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This then meant I could reach the ivy roots which
have been eluding me for so many years, and pull as many as possible of them
out of the soil with Paulette and her husband, Christian raking and mattocking too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> He</span> then
arranged the stones we’d disturbed into a neat surround to the area and the
plan is to put wild flower seed in the newly cleared and dug soil in
March/April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I am so pleased with it all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">We covered them up again with a pieces of old wood and soil leaving an exit for them. This afternoon we attached the trailer to the Land Rover and took all the non-burnable rubbish to the déchetterie, including rubbish from another neighbour's property over the lane. The aim is to have a much prettier village and they've certainly made it look so much cleaner and tidier.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At the end of this week my gorgeous grandson, Charlie, will be seven years old and my first born, Matthew, will be thirty-one. How are the years passing so quickly? How is this year passing so quickly, already 24 January it hardly seems possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I have been moving the hens around into different areas as this coming week four red hens and one black bantam are arriving courtesy of a friend going back to England for two months and I'm also getting a trio of Araucanas - blue egg laying hens. There are too many cockerels on the field and as they are maturing now they are looking for trouble amongst themselves. Sunday will see four of them going to a hen keeper from Normandy who is looking to expand her gene pool and I may, in the future, get some cream Orpingtons from her if they incubate and grow successfully. One Cream Legbar cockerel will go to the breeder who's selling me the Araucanas, again to give new blood to her stock. I do love my hens and it will be good to enjoy new ones settling in. Here are two of the Cream Legbar cockerels who will be leaving me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Sitting outside in the sunshine on Sunday to read my Book Club book.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. Booking into the diary in early summer, the first visit for friends from England.</span> </div>
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the youngish woman behind the counter and asked if she was new since the
summer. She replied that she had changed from glasses to contact lenses and had
cut her hair and changed the style, so that explained that – I wasn’t losing
the plot completely then. Carolyn, for that was her name, reminded me of
the conversation which we had in the </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">summer when I said
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England and handed her a ten euro note. She passed it under a security light
and it failed the test. Having filled in a set of forms to pass the dodgy note
to the right department she handed me my copy and I handed over a twenty euro
note. This too failed the test. We looked at each other, both surprised. Then
the penny dropped. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">On 3 January I had a
morning of </span><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">blunders – I should
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First, while feeding the rabbits I fell in their grassy area because of all the
mud. I stripped off, dressed again and put all my dirty clothes into the
washing machine on the way to the car to go shopping. After about two
minutes of driving I thought I had left my mobile in the pocket of my fleece
I came back to the house and quickly stopped the machine but the pockets were
empty thank goodness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when I got out of the Land Rover I realised I didn’t have my wallet with
me. Luckily, a search of the vehicle yielded €40 so I was still
able to do some shopping. </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shopping trolley I found I didn’t have my keys. I hadn’t locked the
vehicle fortunately, and there were another set of keys hidden in it. I
went back into the shop and reported the loss of my keys giving them my ‘phone
number in case they were found.</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I drove home and having unloaded the car
I went into the utility area to empty the washing machine. I took the
clothes out and as usual swept my hand around the interior for the sock that
usually sticks to the drum and found my wallet. I had been carrying it
with the laundry earlier and must have just put everything into the
machine.</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wallet over the woodburner and the only things to have suffered terminal damage
were some non-laminated membership cards and my new 2014 Mutuelle health
card. </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">About half an hour, SuperU
called me to say my keys had been handed in to the Information Desk. So
all was well that ended well – but all this happened before 10.45am – I
was frightened to do anything else during the rest of the day just in case!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As soon as I told
Carolyn the story she destroyed the forms she'd completed and handed me
back the twenty euro note, using the ten euro for payment. She was
sure that the washing the notes had produced this false result. One of my
friends on Facebook suggested I had been money laundering - lol.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">While she was doing
all this a man entered the Post Office. I knew him but couldn’t remember his
name – he told me it was Gilda. Ah – the plumber who did the work on my house
renovation back in 2006. He looked at me and gasped, astonished at the
difference in my appearance for he hadn’t seen me since before my gastric
bypass. It was extraordinary that we had just been talking about this before
Gilda came in. He talked to Carolyn for a few minutes but kept looking back at
me and shaking his head in disbelief. It’s lovely when you know you’ve changed
so much for the better that you are unrecognisable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beautiful loaf, home made soups - mushroom and ratatouille
- which I've been enjoying this week. I love comforting soup with
crusty bread or hot-buttered toast when the weather's bad.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This year seems to be galloping along. I can't believe it's already eleven days into 2014. The weather has continued much as it finished 2013. Rain, rain, rain and more rain. The short cut I take up a grassy slope to the lane on my way to the animals is now too soggy to climb. Where water might usually run along the ground, there is actually a small waterfall coming down off the road surface.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">One day this week, I managed to drop a box into which I'd put six of our eggs for a neighbour. I ended up using the whites for meringues, which leaked a little but tasted just fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Although I have a steel, I have never been good at sharpening knives. I dropped off a dozen kitchen knives to my neighbour, Christian, who sharpened some for me previously, back in the summer. Yesterday, his wife, Paulette, came round to return them all keen and seriously sharp. I have never managed to cut onions into such small pieces and so neatly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. The weather today, which is now sunny with blue skies and no rain - a temporary change but very welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Collecting the first duck eggs for a very long time now that they're laying again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. Finding half price chocolate truffles on the post-Christmas supermarket shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I should have been going to Sue and Daryl and their son, Dave, for Christmas Day and Boxing Day but on Christmas Eve morning they unfortunately came downstairs to 12"/30cm of water in the downstairs rooms so festivities moved here to St André. They are mostly dried out now and hoping that it doesn't happen again. I enjoyed having them here and it meant I had company without leaving home which is always good in my book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">And another photo this time with Charlie holding Mia - two of my very favourite people!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">My Christmas tree was decorated by my Scottish friend, Jane, and as you can see she did an excellent job. When we brought the tree inside it had been drinking in the fish pond for a couple of weeks and had frozen into ice on the surface!f</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So that's Christmas and New Year's Eve dealt with and now we're going into a new year. If the weather can improve it would be good but even with the rain my life is good and I am looking forward to enjoying another year here in St André, and spending time with friends from here and those coming to stay from the UK. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Seeing all the Christmas cards with their messages from friends around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Celebrating the season with friends and catching up with family on Skype.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. The first day of a brand new year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I really like shopping for fish in my local
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big choice of fresh produce and the prices reflect the season and the weather
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dos de cabillaud, which is cod back and completely boneless, or haddock fillets, but usually
plaice fillets – three small fillets packed in three bags so I can eat one
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Christmas cards starting to arrive in my postbox in the wall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Clearing up the log area, splitting and cutting the logs which are too big for the woodburner and stacking them in old slate crates for neatness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Eating the sweet chestnuts that took so long to peel a couple of days ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Finding that the wood shavings I was given for animal bedding make wonderful fire starters for the woodburner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. Gathering hot, peppery watercress from my fish pond - I wonder how long it will continue cropping. Apparently some varieties grow all year round.</span></div>
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garden, veggie patch and polytunnel have to be cleared of dead stuff, weeded
and dug through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Everything is such a mess in there I feel ashamed when I look at it. However, I have still been harvesting salad, peppers and squashes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Luckily, last week a
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cuttings from the long laurel hedge, cleaned out the chick house, brought in
logs, cleared the large flower bed in the garden and some of the raised veggie beds
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polytunnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The log trolleys have been filled and covered on the terrace in case of really bad weather so I have a ready supply. The garden furniture still needs to be collected up and stored inside.</span></span></div>
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had our first fall of snow here in St André, preceded sleet and hail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It only lasted for fifteen minutes but was
proper snowflakes floating down to the ground – the earliest we’ve had it since
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I am always amazed at how strong the smell is from uncastrated goats and from how far away it can reach my nostrils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The horse chestnut near my house has lost so many leaves now and the ones that are left have changed colour to a lovely light rust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Underfoot there are so many sweet chestnuts in and out of their prickly cases. My volunteer, Christian, has gathered a huge container full. I love their polished shells and the way they fit together neatly in their protective casing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I have mixed feelings about this time of year. I thought everything seemed to be dying away but when I look, I see nasturtians and antirrhinums still in bloom on the driveway and several shrubs have little green shoots appearing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. Booking a table in a restaurant I haven't tried before for Sunday lunch with a friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. Seeing a new photo of my lovely granddaughter, Mia, on Facebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It wasn't so bad until there was a shower. I understand that she didn't know it was going to rain but couldn't stop this thought coming into my head ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Luckily, when the window was finally opened she towelled me down and I was able to cuddle up with Gracie and get over the trauma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">When the snow came last winter we messed about with the drainage pipe which the rabbits play with in their area. We took it in turns to go into the pipe and come out at the other end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">There are really nice neighbours who live on the corner of the lane and when Sandra goes in for a chat and a drink we wait outside on the terrace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">1. The sound of the cat food tin being opened and I think I can hear it from the other end of the garden and run in really fast!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">2. Climbing up to the top of the pergola and lying in amongst the wisteria, vine and clematis in the hope of catching a bird.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">3. Waiting and watching with Gracie and Purrdie for a mouse that we've lost to come out from under the fridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And all across the Flanders fields they lay<br />The bodies of the fallen in the war<br />For us they made the ultimate sacrifice<br />And we will remember them forever more.<br /><br />Red poppies decorate November clothes <br />And where there once was only dirt and mud<br />The summer lands are covered in the flowers<br />The poppies which remind us of spilt blood.<br /><br />Their lives were lost to give us lives to live<br />Hard to imagine the horrors that they shared<br />Our thanks to those we lost, to all of them,<br />Thanks too to those who fought and who were spared.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 7px; line-height: normal;">©Sandra E Chubb</span></span></div>
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