Setting targets

Ste Prudence

Setting targets. Lord, that sounds far too much like being back at work but we need to get certain things organised before our round of visitors begins. We are really looking forward to having No 1 daughter and grand-daughter over for a week, followed by my mother, followed by friends, more friends, and so on. But things need doing first so:

1. Lay the garden paths
   Sublist - order the castines (limestone chippings) then dread the delivery of 15 tonnes of the stuff which will have to be shifted by wheelbarrow!
2. Dig and plant the potager - veggie garden
   Sublist - buy compost, dig, dig again and keep digging until the soil resembles soil and not mud clumps.
   Then - plant courgettes which are already looking too big for their pots, peppers, beans and scatter them with marigolds to keep away the bugs
3. Get tax forms and fill in - must be returned by the end of May
   Sublist - find out how to claim back the credit for having new windows fitted last year.
4. Get French driving licence forms completed and down to the prefecture - it's about time you got legal!
5. Go to vets for new supply of Frontine for the cats – nasty ticks around again
6. Do the filing, it’s taking over the house!
7. Check the pool daily for chlorine and pH levels. Clean it too.
8. Make fly screen door for the pool house.
9. Re-make steps for the pool house, the pool guys gave them a hard time when they were here.
10. Make curtains for the pool house – it faces east and our guests (or ourselves) won’t want to be woken that early. Hang on, I’m already woken at dawn every day by the Little Bar Steward knocking on the door to be let out. Maybe I should move into the pool house permanently and leave him indoors with the guests. Well, it’s a thought!
    
    
11. Remember, you are retired so don’t get stressed. Ha!!