A long list of projects .......

Back from France on Thursday and a long day today as I took Barbara to Heathrow to catch her flight to Johannesburg and on to Windhoek in Namibia at the start of her 13 week placement with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas - VSO Namibia Programme ). She's working as an Education Management advisor in Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi Strip - about the most distant and rural part of Namibia. You can read her blog here: Barbara working for VSO in Namibia


I then drove up to Barbara's sister in Suffolk to pick up our two cats after their long Christmas break (we left them there on 28th December when we retuened to La Belle France)  which they mainly spent catching mice and putting dirty pawprints on Judith and Steve's car :o( 

I'll be back to La Basse Cour on Tuesday evening with the cats and a long list of projects to complete in the next 12 weeks that Barbara will be away. I'll be mainly focussing on constructing the first phase of our garden. Michael Wright wrote in C'est La Folie (his account of moving to the Limousin region of France)  that one of the things that attracted him to living in France was the opportunity to use manly and noisy machinery. I have to confess to similar feelings with a long stint of chainsawing, rotovating and lawn mowing ahead of me .........