The first frost yesterday morning meant that I had to break the ice on the animal drinking containers on the field and in the garden. It seems earlier this year ...
The Autumn colours are so beautiful in the lanes that I have to keep stopping the car and taking photographs. The last leaves have fallen off the acer in the garden.
My Workaway, Lynn, mother, Ute and sister, Elin walked around the Etang de Beaucours at St Nicolas du Pélem and the reflections in the water were beautiful with the trees just starting to change.
We had two evenings with me cooking on the first and Ute the second, playing Triominos and Gin Rummy. Good times.
Their journey from the north of Germany by bus took 13 hours to Paris and another 6 hours on to Guingamp.
Two days later Ute, Elin and Lynn too returned home. It must have been exhausting travelling.
While Lynn was here we drove up to the north coast of Brittany and collected shells on the beach at Pordic. There was a chap walking across the beach with lots of equipment. He was hoping to shoot - yes shoot - bass.
We watched him slip into the water and round the edge of the bay. Unfortunately we didn't see him again so don't know if he was lucky.
At Binic, we also collected shells - so many different ones - and finallly walked from the beach behind the wall on the left in this photo, and somehow, don't ask me how, as I am seriously challenged with heights, I climbed up a set of steps on the end with no viable handrail for the first part. It was a slow, ardous, terrifying climb for me, but I did make it.
I took a photo of the seafood restaurant I saw last time I was there and also photographed the menus. I definitely want to eat here sometime, the food looks really good.
This was the Créperie where we had lunch in Pordic. It had a good atmosphere and bio drinks. Very pleasant and worth a second visit.
My neighbours, who have a holiday home in the hamlet have given me permission to pick from their orchard and I went over to collect medlars.
They need to blet - that is rot - or at least get very ripe. To that end, I have spread them in a single layer on newspaper in a fruit tray and will wait for them to be ready to make medlar jelly.
My three surprise ducklings seem to be thriving and love it on the duck pond with and without their mum.
The little chick who sat on my shoulder for most of the mid-summer and who I named Annie, seems to have grown into a cockerel. Although there are no large tail feathers yet, there are spurs and these combined with thick legs make me feel that soon we will be getting a crowing noise from this bird.
Baking today, and I made a dozen seeded rolls. Last week I made this plaited loaf which rose and rose, so much that I nearly couldn't fit it on the baking sheet. I hadn't really baked much bread since I was ill last year and it's good to get back into it again.
My woodburner is performing beautifully again and in spite of the colder weather outside now, inside is toasty warm.
The photo on the right was one I found on Facebook and loved - what a way to display a logpile!
The sunsets and sunrises are beautiful at the moment, here is one of the sunsets last week.
Lastly, a group of cows standing in a gateway, who made me stop my car and record them!
Three things I like:
1. I had my 'flu' jab this week from a nurse who managed to slip the needle in without me feeling it at all - hopefully that will see me with another 'flu' free year.
2. Started - with Lynn - on the mammoth task of clearing the stored stuff in my studio. Already found some things I haven't seen for years ...
3. The early morning cobwebs glistening in the branches in the lane.
The Autumn colours are so beautiful in the lanes that I have to keep stopping the car and taking photographs. The last leaves have fallen off the acer in the garden.
My Workaway, Lynn, mother, Ute and sister, Elin walked around the Etang de Beaucours at St Nicolas du Pélem and the reflections in the water were beautiful with the trees just starting to change.
We had two evenings with me cooking on the first and Ute the second, playing Triominos and Gin Rummy. Good times.
Their journey from the north of Germany by bus took 13 hours to Paris and another 6 hours on to Guingamp. Two days later Ute, Elin and Lynn too returned home. It must have been exhausting travelling.
While Lynn was here we drove up to the north coast of Brittany and collected shells on the beach at Pordic. There was a chap walking across the beach with lots of equipment. He was hoping to shoot - yes shoot - bass. 
We watched him slip into the water and round the edge of the bay. Unfortunately we didn't see him again so don't know if he was lucky.
At Binic, we also collected shells - so many different ones - and finallly walked from the beach behind the wall on the left in this photo, and somehow, don't ask me how, as I am seriously challenged with heights, I climbed up a set of steps on the end with no viable handrail for the first part. It was a slow, ardous, terrifying climb for me, but I did make it.
I took a photo of the seafood restaurant I saw last time I was there and also photographed the menus. I definitely want to eat here sometime, the food looks really good.
This was the Créperie where we had lunch in Pordic. It had a good atmosphere and bio drinks. Very pleasant and worth a second visit.
My neighbours, who have a holiday home in the hamlet have given me permission to pick from their orchard and I went over to collect medlars.
They need to blet - that is rot - or at least get very ripe. To that end, I have spread them in a single layer on newspaper in a fruit tray and will wait for them to be ready to make medlar jelly.
My three surprise ducklings seem to be thriving and love it on the duck pond with and without their mum.
The little chick who sat on my shoulder for most of the mid-summer and who I named Annie, seems to have grown into a cockerel. Although there are no large tail feathers yet, there are spurs and these combined with thick legs make me feel that soon we will be getting a crowing noise from this bird.
Baking today, and I made a dozen seeded rolls. Last week I made this plaited loaf which rose and rose, so much that I nearly couldn't fit it on the baking sheet. I hadn't really baked much bread since I was ill last year and it's good to get back into it again.
My woodburner is performing beautifully again and in spite of the colder weather outside now, inside is toasty warm.
The sunsets and sunrises are beautiful at the moment, here is one of the sunsets last week.
Lastly, a group of cows standing in a gateway, who made me stop my car and record them!
Three things I like:
1. I had my 'flu' jab this week from a nurse who managed to slip the needle in without me feeling it at all - hopefully that will see me with another 'flu' free year.
2. Started - with Lynn - on the mammoth task of clearing the stored stuff in my studio. Already found some things I haven't seen for years ...
3. The early morning cobwebs glistening in the branches in the lane.
