Country Life

We been initiating our friends Bob and Jenny into the 'real' french country life. Yesterday we had a phone call from acquaintances in the next village. They had a glut of plums and did we want any. The plums were duly delivered and so Bob and I set to, making plum chutney.

Whilst we were cooking chutney, Sue and Jenny were having a garden design brain-storm. Jenny is looking for ideas for their allotment, and Sue, as usual, has plenty of ideas!






The boys having finished the chutney, Sue then made a batch of plum jam....and there's more fruit which has been put into the freezer!

We finished off this day of local pursuits by going along to an evening 'vide-grenier'. The literal translation of this is 'empty loft'. In essence it's a glorified boot sale, but this one didn't start till 8pm and was scheduled to go on till 2am.

Actually, we're not keen on these events as, to us, they are just a huge collection of rubbish which we would have been pleased to throw away! But it did give Bob and Jenny a different glimps of rural french life.