Spare tyres and woodpiles

St Victor

Happy Saint's Day!

Busy, busy days recently with a spate of visitors. So, do please accept my apologies (Jim) for not blogging so much recently.

We have been blessed with good weather again and had a good weekend with friends from the UK staying. They seemed just as happy by the pool with a good book as they were pottering out to a couple of local shops, and on Sunday to Souillac where we sat in the sun and enjoyed three jazz bands playing in the streets. We were surprised that the town wasn't busier yesterday but we soon found the crowd of people outside the cathedral gathering for, who knows what.

Jon and Rob, our guest, spent Sunday afternoon and this morning moving huge piles of logs which had become buried in the hedgerow. We are delighted that we seem to have at least a winters' worth of wood now but it still needs to be moved from the middle of the field to nearer the house and we don't think the Mehari will be able to manage it all. A log splitter is on the shopping list but before we buy we have a friend coming in a couple of weeks from nearby with his own log splitter to give us a hand with the first batch. We can then test his machine and see if it will be suitable for us.

The catering department (me and him in turns) has been very busy for the last week with various dinner guests as well as our 'stayers' and I'm pleased that we can resort to light salads and snacks from my freezer stock for a couple of weeks - it may help us lose the extra pounds I'm sure we've gained from the more elaborate meals I like to feed to visitors, especially those who haven't been before or don't come here very often. It's one of the pleasures of life, feeding guests and sitting around relaxing with slow, many small-coursed meals and enjoying conversation and catching up on a year's news.

But it does nothing for the waistline!