Sunday 06th Sept

We got up, did the blog and headed out in to the garden by ten in the morning, we were expecting a delivery of wood at eleven, in the mean time ant pulled up some weeds and i hoed the veg patch. The wood arrived just before eleven and we started shifting in to the wood shed, in the middle of this David and Mark arrived, they have thier car back now. They helped shift some of the wood and i put on a coffee and showed them what we had been up to. About ten minutes later Marthe arrived to take us to see her brothers vineyard so we had to get sorted and say good bye to David and Mark and head off.
The vineyard was very impressive, as was the house, we had an apero and then we were invited to lunch, a special local sausage, and all the produce used was grown in their own garden, so we sat on their terrace overlooking their beautiful garden and had a very nice time. After lunch Benoit, Marthe's brother, said he wanted to take us out for a drive, so we loaded ourselves into his car and off we went. First we visited the house that their parents had owned, a lovely Manoir, sadly now sitting empty. After this we headed to see one of Benoit's friends, but he was not in, so he took us to an illegal pub, this was a very strange little place, in an old woman's living room with a couple of tables, where we had a couple of glasses of not bad wine. After this we went to see a couple of other big houses in the area and then the farm that their grand parents had owned, then headed back to St.Pol. So we had a bit of a whirlwind afternoon and headed back home for seven, when we got back we put a bit more of the wood away and then left the rest for the morning. We settled down for a relaxing evening and ended up watching tv in bed before going to sleep. Another busy day on Monday, ant will finish the hall ceiling and the stairs and i will carry on the work in the garden.