Picnic in the park coming on

I am singing at Heiseville on Sunday afternoon and on Tuesday evening the choir met at the church to do a practice en place so to speak. This little church is so typical of all the little village churches with statues like this and little treasures to discover. Along the wall is an exquisite set of the twelve stations of the cross and is a wonder to behold.  Like the church in Brevands there are no regular Sunday services held and the buildings are kept in this original and beautiful condition for weddings, funerals and concerts like ours on Sunday. I am really looking forward to it as the acoustics are super and I just hope we can all pull  together to make it a pleasurable experience for our audience. Oh, the reason for this picture? well I am a sucker for a good mother and child and if I had the money I would  collect them all up in my barn and just sit, and look at them.

It is only April and we are already out with the water bowser keeping our plants wet and in good condition.  It is a delicate balance, I spend all my time and energy planting my offspring and then we become acutely aware that without rain the new roots will not take and all the work and care is for nothing so we fill up the barrick and do a  circuit of the gardens. If this dry weather keeps up we will be doing it again very soon, and this is not a complaint, just an observation.

The boat garden is looking good, the broom is crisp and yellow and the tamarisk is showing it’s buds in red, what a lot of promise for a fab summer.

We have been out for two lunches this week and also had a lovely surprise visit from Peter and Sarah for cider and crisps up in the garden. We have sometimes been low and perhaps a little homesick and the things we miss most of all are friends and family to visit and folk just knocking on the gate to see if you are in and this week we had it all. Invites to lunch where other friends just passing by join in and a ring on our gate bell from peter and Sarah to see if we had time for aperitifs. It is rare these days that we need to list our strengths and weaknesses to make sense of our life change here but when old hankerings come good then we know we are in the right place.

Thank you to Nicola and Gary who we lunched with on Wednesday, Sarah and Peter who we shared aperitif with on Thursday. Jill and Tony for lunch on Friday and Shirley and Marc  for turning up and being part of our jolly week. I am feeling a Picnic in the park coming on as soon as 

we get back from the UK………