02.02 Day 139 . . . Visitors

Today we had visitors coming, Gilly and Paul were popping over for coffee at around 11am. As a result we weren’t late getting up as all the required tidying was required . . . not that there really was any with just the two of us banging around in here. Anyhow the place was shipshape and newly acquired biscuits were sitting waiting to be broken out.
Gilly and Paul arrived just after 11am and the weather was kind on us. A brief break from the chill and the sun coming out meant we could sit outside on the terrace and lap up the first flirting glimpse of Spring . . .maybe a bit early to be saying that.
We sat and chatted for a couple of hours, always handy to speak to people that have been here a while - just to get some tips on things to do, things we might need to be doing to make our adventure here as good as it can be. The guys finally decided to make a move and we said our goodbyes . . the sun still out but now a little colder.
Tre and I had some lunch - soup and some other nibbles . . . and some remaining biscuits.
I’ve been meaning to try growing some seeds for a while, some sunflower seeds we rescued from plants a good few weeks ago, the chilli seeds that we found and purchased yesterday and I thought I’d try a garlic clove as well. Tre was not convinced we would achieve much of a result as its not to sunny at the moment and it is still quite cold - even in the Gite at times due to its stone build.
Anyway I ran outside and liberated some small stone from the car parking area, and together with some soil I acquired from a field on Sunday we made a base layer in two pots. I’d also seen a thing on Facebook/instagram ‘whatever’ to use loo roll inners as seed pots - so I thought we’d give that a go. As a result we have four chilli tubes, three sunflower tubes and a garlic tube . . . fingers crossed I will be swamped in chillis by June.
We spent the rest of the day knocking around the Gite, doing odds and sods and Tre cooking dinner . . . . once we spoke to Hannah to get the gas bottle changed that is. Pork steaks in a provencal marinade. I also put together a playlist requested by Mr Annals, which took me a good while and as a consequence made me listen to some tracks I’d not heard in a long time, which was cool.
Due to the delay in gas availability dinner was a little delayed and by the time it had cooked and we had eaten, the evening was about done. We had in the mean time opened the second bottle that we had bought the other day - another numbered bottle as Tre had discovered . . . this time however we had ‘Les Ormes De Cambras - Cabernet Sauvignon Pays D’Oc 2021’ Cuvée Réservée 062164 . . . and if it could be it was -was better than the other one being the Merlot. If we see these on the shelves again we will be getting some whatever the price. The evening finished with a little TV before we slipped off to bed.Baca selengkapnya