We are off today to St.Etienne d’Albagnan in Herault for our next WWOOF, which we think (you can never be completely sure!) will involve picking various plants and making herbal teas (mainly drying and processing to make a product rather than brewing and sipping).
We have had a great last couple of days here, with amazing weather. Would like to say that it is like summer at home, except summer at home seems to be wet and cold these days, so it is not like summer at home at all! Anyway, we are leaving behind blue skies and warm sun, and hopefully moving on before the snow gets here.
Our greatest achievement in the last couple of days is probably the making of a plessis – the border/small fence thing for the sort of terraced garden they have here in the Pyrenees. We have no idea if we are ever going to be able to use this new found stick weaving technique, but it was fun doing it. The hardest part was probably driving an iron bar into the ground to make the holes for the stakes – my arms are still aching now! Below are some photos which hopefully will make sense of what we are talking about.
Xavier (our host) and Helene mid plessis making
Andy filling in the earth.
The finished job! Just add plants and voila………
Tegan has had a few more chances to explore and has been loving the sunshine. She has perfected her French to include merci, bonjour and bonsoir – not bad. We have added a few more words to our vocabulary, mainly connected to tools and gardens, I’m sure we can worry about the grammar later!
Tegan and Elise (our mini host) soaking up the sun.
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