and sadly, I am very very excited…..

All of a sudden we seem more focussed on what needs to be done and who will do it. I put this all down to the fact that I have introduced the white board phenomenon, and each morning, at breakfast, we go through the list. There are however days when we set off to achieve something off the board, get distracted, and end up achieving something totally different. I have been known to go in and write the other achievement on the board as it has proven to be good for moral. We have taken a very conscious decision to go out less and do fewer kilometres to tighten our belts. If we stay in we tend to spend less on stuff, and we are so good and spending money on, stuff.

Having said that we are staying in more,  we did push the boat out with our friend Ann to  attend the Carentan Folk spectacle. Tri Yan are a very big and popular French folk group who put traditional tunes into a modern presentation and by golly it was spectacular. Big drums, big noise big lighting which even had Mike on his feet for an hour and a half whist they entertained us.  We sat in our picnic chairs listening to the support groups with beer and chips and watched  a  local shanty group and then Dirty Linen who are a traditional  Irish  band, whose performance was  made all the more enjoyable for us because they sang in English and we were sat behind these groupies dressed up for the occasion to make all the more traditional.

The spectacle ended at one in the morning and was a truly entertaining event. We did have a little chuckle when Tri Yan announced they were celebrating their fortieth year on the road and  made the observation that they were celebrating their quarant ans in Carentan and you need to read that with a French accent and it will make sense.

Ann and Anna bought Mike and I this rose for our coral wedding anniversary way back in February and here it is in full bloom, and blow me down it really is  the colour of coral. I was delighted.

Earlier this year I planted ten little home grown box plants in two rows and yesterday Mike got his hedge trimmer out and cut them to shape and I really do have a box of box, and sadly, I am very very excited…..