Showing posts with label Nigel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigel. Show all posts

Thursday, June 10, 2021

10/06/2021 A day I always remember - my Mums birthday.

   The maximum temperature here today 27⁰C, minimum 14⁰C. Very dry after too much rain!!   Wind  8km/h  North Easterly winds with gusts up to 18 km/h.    No sign of any rain for the next week and temperatures over 30⁰C !!

Apologies for the lack of blogs. but the garden and home between them have been pretty demanding.  I have taken plenty of photos, and lots of flowers and bugs all of which will wait until I have more time.  For today I want to celebrate with you all having a meal out at the end of last month, the first in 15 months!  Wow, it was like being let out of school it was so exciting!

I apologise for more photos than normal but I am the one who has the most problems I think with a very slow WiFi.

Mum 10/06/1915 - 17/06/2002.

Driving through La Rochefoucauld.

The Tardoire river with its 15th-century bridge.  

La Rochefoucauld Chateau, If you want to take a look inside the chateau see my blog HERE

The old convent, 1059.

Not sure where the stairs go to but the door to the cloisters is on the right.

The cloisters...

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The convent church, which I believe is now a day hospital.

The main street

Inside the jewellers.  Nigel had to have his wedding ring cut off as his finger was swollen from a combination of arthritis and pressure from the ring. He is due to go back there tomorrow to have the ring resized now the swelling has gone down.

Just a door!

The sign to the cinema which of course has not been open for over a year now.

The local well.

One of the old houses.

A panorama of the bridge over the Tardoire, the chateau and the restaurant.

A closer shot of the restaurant which is newly opened.  They have been restoring the old building for some time.



Self-explanatory, you can always take a look at their website.

On guard near the entrance.

Reception.

A view from the table peeking out from under the sun brolly.

We were early, so I managed a shot from our table with the bridge in the background.  It soon filled up, though they had limited numbers allowed.

The starter was a pork dish and really this is only a small pot!!

Rose wine.

We both had a chicken dish for the main course, but in the excitement of eating out I forgot a photo!

Moi.

My dessert - Rum baba - I blew the diet 😉

Nigel

Much more sensible he had triple ice cream.


Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.
My local list of wildflowers. (90 Species 23/04/2021).

See also my


Joining up with My Corner of the World. 


Monday, October 15, 2018

Update......

Nigel finally got home on Friday night after the plane cancellation and changing from Ryanair and Bristol airport to Flybe and  Southampton airport.  Masses of land travel with no refunds!  Ever since  He has been back home he has been in bed feeling terrible with a chest infection.  We have our 6 month Dr check up tomorrow so hopefully he will get sorted out.

The computer finally got to the computer shop this morning and the hard drive is caput!!!!!  They are going to put in a new one which is certainly cheaper  than a new computer but it means it is going to take me a while to load everything back on and I will have lost my October photos which i had not backed up and were ready for posting 😬 thankfully everything else was backed up.

Not sure when I will be back in business again.

Take care and have a good week.

Monday, August 20, 2018

20/08/2018 This was supposed to be yesterday, but now a belated birthday post.

Maximum temperature today 29C, minimum 16C.  Dry; 13 km/h North-easterly winds with up to 33 km/h gusts. 

We have been cutting up more of the (very hard!) old oak platform stripped out of the barn and another batch of plums has been picked, de-stoned and put in the dehydrator.  Yesterday we took the day off 'work' as it was my birthday and we went out for lunch at yet another new restaurant!

Getting there but still masses to do!

We left home yesterday late morning and we had to pass through Saint Sornin on our way to Le Petit Restaurant at Rozet.  The violent hail storm that hit the town on 4 July has well and truly left its mark.  July and August are holiday months in France, so most builders and roofers are "en vacances'.  Every roof in the town has been smashed and they are for the most part still protected by plastic; so sad for the village, which has so many pensioners living in it.
Plastic sheeting in a number of different colours but mostly black...

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I feel so sorry for the people here...

Next to the war memorial...

even the church did not escape the from the massive 'tennis ball' hail storm.

Further down the road, even surrounding villages were no better off...

This one looks as if work has begun,  though maybe they are also still waiting for the return of their roofers from holiday.

Travelling on. the sunflowers are now bending their heads.

Passing through the pretty village of Grassac, which was beyond the storm-damaged area.

 
I love these leafy and almost deserted roads! 

Crossing over old narrow bridges, after the disaster in Italy one wonders how safe these little bridges now are, though they have stood the test of many centuries ...


The TomTom then decided to take us on a shortcut and we had a couple of kms through this state forest on not the best of roads; it was pretty though!  Thankfully we did not meet anyone coming the other way!

Arrival at the restaurant - a converted house...

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Walking down the entrance path, I loved this multi painted psychedelic pig and the old plough.

We chose to sit outside as the weather was so good.

The menu.

My starter - tarte d'oignon et fromage de chevre. (Onion tart with goats cheese).

Nigel had pate Grand-mere.

He followed this up with Boeuf du Limousin (cooked blue as usual and how we like it!) which he said was very tender.

and I had Selle d'agneau (lamb) which was also delicious.
 So as not to upset my Canadian follower, David, I will refrain from showing you the cheese platter and the yummy dessert 😉

The Dutch family on the next table kindly offered to take this photo of the two of us...

While Nigel took the photo of the birthday lady.  Cheers, this was a delightful pineau rouge before the rose wine which we had with our meal.

For those that might be interested in the alterations to the barn we have just bought, I have posted the photos on my other blog My Life in the Charente.



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