Most unlikley

Well, that’s the washing out on the line (don’t know how long it will stay there in this wind) and the bread dough rising. Next task, after making (and eating) a brunch of peach pancakes with bacon and maple syrup is to turn Brunhilde around and then it should be time to shape my baguettes. Yesterday …

Slowly, slowly

The weather picked up a little on Wednesday and was a far drier day. I did something about the huge pile of laundry that had come home with us on Monday and I cleared some things out of the van, taking Teddy in with me to begin his process of familiarisation. He had a thorough …

Feeling light-headed

Yesterday’s quick trip to town consisted of: purchase of two polo shirts from EWM a half hour’s shearing session at the hairdresser half an hour in the cathedral with the camera, taking photos of the flower-arranging festival exhibits cheese (pecorino with saffron and black peppercorns) MGs Tesco I am so relieved to be shorn. When …

Still lagging

I am still all behind and look to be in no danger of catching up any time soon, either. Ah, well, Tomorrow I am zooming into town to get my hair shorn. It’s not so very long just now but I like it short and easily-managed when I am camping. Brunhilde has failed her MOT …

Wasting time?

Mr L went to town to take the camper van for its MOT today. I planned on being productive in his absence. What I actually did was start to write  up in the Two Snails blog some of the matters that I was discussing here yesterday. I wrote a blog post about planning and began …

Allons-y!

Yesterday’s mail brought with it a whopping £18.50 in Tesco vouchers. These apparently came as loyalty points from our electricity provider. I have been saving my Tesco cash vouchers for a while now as they can be exchanged for three times their face value in Channel Shuttle tickets. I have £45 saved so far, so I …