Renovation project, more visitors and indoor BBQ - Monday 24th September
Wake up this morning and the house feels so empty and quiet,
there is no going down to Sheila’s to say good morning or knocks on the door,
we wander around a little bit lost for the morning, it’s really hard to get
back into the swing of things. So we spend a lazy morning not doing very much
except moping about.
We pull ourselves together by early afternoon and realise
that we have no real food in the house as we didn’t go shopping due to eating
out all weekend and as my brother and sister in law have found a ferry and may
be here later today, decide we had better stock the fridge and cupboards.
We go to the main supermarket in Morlaix and do a major
shop, the best buy is the kilo bag of mixed seafood, this is amazing as it also
contains scallops!!!! Fish risotto here we come. We also stock up on a lot of
LeClercs Eco+ food, this is similar price wise to Tesco blue stripe (found in
England) but the quality is that of Marks and Spencer’s, please insert your own
countries luxury shop brand. Yet again proving all those armchair experts wrong
(the ones that told us how expensive it was to live in France) I may have said
this before, but if you do shop around it is very inexpensive to eat well in France.
As we will be having guests in the house from tonight, John
decides to block all of the holes to make the house a little warmer.
This is an excellent idea we have the wood burner going and
the living room tidy and the house is very toasty warm, at this point we have
dinner, bacon, sausage etc cooked on the big gas BBQ. This is when we realise
that the BBQ is no longer a suitable cooking implement, with holes in the
ceilings and walls it had not been a problem but with a sealed house, a BBQ indoors
is a big mistake! The smoke started to sting my eyes, and we had to open the
big windows, it is now time to buy a proper cooker!
Calvin and Liz arrive at approx 10.30pm, it is really nice
to see them, I didn’t realise just how much I had missed all of my family, my
life has suddenly turned into an emotional roller coaster.
They are really happy with their bedroom and I think a
little surprised as they have been following the blog, but had not managed to
stay up to date with the posts showing their bed, so I think there was a lot of
relief that the room was habitable, my daughter had returned saying that we
lived in a building site!
Lots of catching up around the dining table and the end of
another day.
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