to show off with this year…lovely..

Blog 16 / July 2015

 

It has been hot hot hot in Brevands and we have been able to open the pool every day and after Mike has gone through the fly clearing, skimming, ph reading and all the things a good pool boy does we cool down and totally relax, have our board meetings and just count our lucky stars that this old pool is going to last for yet another season……we hope

 

 

Until the area where the steps are became wet and flooded and the water level in the pool seemed to be going down and OOOHHHH NO….we found a leak. We spent a frustrating  two days looking for the puncture repair kit and another infuriating two days looking for the goggles to allow Mike to get down to work under water.

 

 

And finally on the Monday we had planned to go to St Malo for a two day break, Mike mended the leak and as we wallowed about cooling down we took a board room decision to stay in the garden and have our two day break here in sunny Brevands, with all mod cons right here.

 

 

 

 

We drove the camper into town, bought holiday food and drove it back to the top car park to let  ourselves into el campo del Brevands  and found a nice shady place by the pool and settled down for a two night stay.

 

 

 

 

We BBQ’d and made our own S’mores, the latest craze in Canada involving marshmallow, chocolate bar and digestive biscuits all squiggled together,  thank you to the Joiner family for inspiring our al fresco desert.

 

 

 

We positioned the camper to get the morning sun and as we know the dynamics of this garden like the backs of our hands I was looking forward to the soft rays of the new day stroking us out of our slumber only to wake up at seven thirty to the gentle pitter patter of rain and the sun stayed resolute behind the clouds till way into the afternoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

so, what if we are bonkers, at least we are having fun just us two and  it still amazes me that after all these years we can still do this sort of stuff. We played scrabble and I won, and crib and Mike won, so all was balanced and calm in the Brevands camp site for a couple of nights.

 

 

In the week previous we had a few mates around to have a hot chicken salad, all very impromptu and a lot of fun and laughs. I have the eating-out process off to a fine art now, and I don’t find myself plodding back to the house just to fetch the salt any more, but I have a very big request that if and when we ever move on from here my al fresco terrace will have to back onto the kitchen, it saves time and makes sense……..my legs say so.

 

 

 

 

And after the sun went down we lit the tent lights and enjoyed that wonderful late night comradery you can only get after a few bottles of wine and good cheese board, oh yes. and a box of grown up chocolates goes down well too.

 

 

 

And finally, my appreciation of the rogue plant and I love it when it happens. A Gladioli growing out of a potted fuchsia

 

 

 

 

And an, I don’t know what this is called lilly, out of the yellow loosestrife which pops up every year without fail and now has a very pretty playmate to show off with this year…lovely..