Autumn Roundup

Well, Christmas is fast approaching, and what have we been doing?  And really, not a lot.

Since our last post Sue has taken every opportunity to be working out in the garden.  She's trying to keep the beds as weed free as possible so that there will be a little less work in the Spring.  Now that I'm not mowing, I've started 'again' on the last bedroom.  I've fitted a shower tray which has to be tiled and I now have to sort out the plumbing for the shower, toilet and hand basin. Then I will make good all of the joints in the plasterboard that lines the walls before tackling the electrics.  Finally there's the tiling to be done.  Just a few jobs!
The trouble is, it's so long since I started doing the room (at least 2 years) that we're having to remind ourselves of what we want in the room and then think about how I was /am going to do it.

In the midst of all of this, we've socialised with friends, played Bridge at our club in Gourdon in aid of the French equivalent of Children in Need, and started to prepare for Christmas.  In fact we had our first 'Tinsel and Turkey' yesterday with 3 friends who came for lunch.  Needless to say we didn't have Turkey but we did try to make it a bit festive as we won't be seeing them again before the 25th.

As you may have noted, Sue is planning on opening the Garden with a charity scheme in 2016, and the local organiser invited us to meet up with a group of gardeners to the west of Cahors for a plant swap.  They were very welcoming, pleasingly they weren't all English and Sue came home with a tray of new plants!

We're off to the UK next week to see Aunty Betty and then the serious Christmas preparation will begin.