We have realised that the time has come for us to start thinking about packing up again as we now have only one week left at La Fargassa before we leave to go to the Lot et Garonne for our Christmas break. The other WWOOFERS are starting to leave too or at least get themselves in the zone – two of them have been making some amazing Christmas presents out of wood. It is so amazing to see how things can be created from bits of log. We too have been inspired, but artistic talents with wood are a bit of an untried and untested area for us, so no one get your hopes up just yet!
The cold weather is starting to kick in, in the shape of a couple of frosty mornings, but amazingly we still manage to get hot sunshine between the hours of 11.15 and 3pm (we all wait for the sun to come up over the hill and are sad to see it go, so we all know the times quite well!). Still sitting round the campfire at nights, although I think my bum now needs a hat as it gets so cold!
The work this week has been quite varied, Andy has finished the work on corking the house, and we have almost finished our raspberries. Part of this has involved rerouting the irrigation system which has been quite interesting and we felt pleased with the results. We have also been doing some more pruning and are now uprooting some tenacious stinging nettles around the edges. This activity actually revealed a small nest that one of the chickens had made (outside the coup) with three eggs in it- all very exciting. Thinking of chickens, we also had a chicken cremation (this is a farm full of veggies by the way) as Delores the chicken went off to that chicken place in the sky earlier in the week. Most of the chickens seem to have names including Houdini (no prizes for guessing why!) and Penguin (not a clue on that one!).
We actually weren’t around for said chicken funeral as we have been backwards and forwards to the garage trying to sort the car out. We have a new exhaust pipe and a back wheel bearing and now know that the drive shaft is also a bit ill. French car vocab slowly improving, car slowly deteriorating……………..
Tegan is all well and happy and excited by the fact that there is now a Christmas tree in the gite for her to pull the baubles off. This is often met by great cries of “NOOOOO” from the two 8 year old kids here who decorated it so carefully. She is actually more excited by the fact that the digger (once at the top of the drive way) is now down by the house so she can see it every day, and say “hello digger”. She is making great headway in blasting to bits any gender stereotyping at a young age and is very excited by all things mechanical. You’d never guess she is the daughter of an engineer….
Beautifully pruned raspberries!
Tegan helping with to dig a hole for the irrigation pipe
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