Fun on the other side of the world, how time flies.

Despite the drought we are battling on with the projects in hand and Mike has started to prepare for grass. Success is one hundred percent determined by the amount of rain fall once the seed is set. We are defying nature and throwing money at this, most urgent project by hand watering through the meter. The seeds went down yesterday and in three days time with enough water and TLC we will begin to see seedlings and then it is a question of when and how nature will reward us.

On Monday our friend from the USA went home. Lydia has been teaching English in College for 7 months on work experience and came to join the choir to find friends and experience a bit of local town life. Little did she know that she would meet a bunch of English ladies to have a laugh with as well as a wonderfully warm and friendly bunch of choristers. We all met at the station to her utter surprise and sang a goodbye song in three part harmony, there was not a dry eye in the house..  As we grouped together for our Tuesday night practise in Carentan she was touching down  in USA back to the bosom of her family. The song “La langue de chez nous” was flat with out you Lydia …

The big mower is still not mended, parts on order. I popped my head around the lawn mower menders door today and he shot me a spanked spaniel look and shrugged his shoulders. That must mean no news then. In the mean time Mike is back to the old and tiresome running back and forward with his little mowers and to his credit it is all looking good. The problem will come if it rains as these little beasts do not function well and then the grass grows and the whole problem is one of despair and frustration, does that sound a bit drama queen ..you bet.   David and Naomi came for a visit on Sunday night and we got on with them like a house on fire It was supposed to be aperitif and they arrived and seven and left at eleven thirty. I really do not understand the aperitif rules and nor did Genevievre who said I should  have kicked them out, but we are trying to build favourable neighbourly relations here and I need them to water my garden when we go away so they can do no wrong at the moment.

Look at my three big boys in OZ sitting on my screen saver  They are all at school now, and life sounds good and fun on the other side of the world,  how time flies.