{"id":1731,"date":"2017-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-8th-october-family-fun\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:11","slug":"sunday-8th-october-family-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-8th-october-family-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 8th October – Family Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess I need to start this week\u2019s blog with an apology as I didn\u2019t publish anything last week.\u00a0 Despite having made my New Year\u2019s Resolution last January \u2018promising\u2019 only to skip weeks if I say so in advance, I am fairly happy that I made it to the 1st<\/sup> October before breaking my resolution \u2013 it’s lasted longer than any previous resolution that I have ever made \u2013 has anyone still got a 2017 resolution they are yet to break?<\/p>\n

The reason I didn\u2019t post a blog last week was that we have been enjoying the company of family for the last 2 weeks, and indeed have David\u2019s parents with us now for the forthcoming week, and so have, again, been more sociable than productive and we haven\u2019t achieved a huge amount of real work and what I did do is not terribly photogenic.<\/p>\n

The first week we hosted David\u2019s uncle and aunt who came with their fabulous soft top car \u2013 hence me clearing out a space in the one of Grange\u2019s garage bays \u2013 and, thankfully, the weather generally remained pretty good allowing them to enjoy the fabulous Breton roads.\u00a0 Because the weather was dry and warm I did manage to spend a couple of days behind the Grange continuing with the digging I had started.<\/p>\n

Despite me saying in the last blog, that the first half I had already done was the harder half, the second was pretty tough too and I am still a few metres short of what I need to clear before I build the woodstore.<\/p>\n

Most of the other tasks we have completed since my last blog are more routine such as taking delivery of our first cord of winter wood and ordering the materials I need to finish the interior of upstairs in Grange.\u00a0 Amazingly some will be being delivered next week (not all evidently) so will allow me to make a start during the autumn when we have had the wiring and electrical work completed which should start in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

As you can see these don\u2019t make for great photos.\u00a0 However, what I also managed to complete was the refurbishment of our own po\u00eale in Kergudon having received our new baffle and fire bricks from Devon.\u00a0 A new coat of paint and buffed up door knobs and it looks almost like new \u2013 certainly has bought us many more years of use and we fired it up for the first time this winter last night and it certainly seemed to kick out a lot more heat with the new insulation and parts.\u00a0 It has given me the experience to tackle Hayloft and Granary\u2019s po\u00eales over the winter.<\/p>\n

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Otherwise we have been having fun with our guests, visiting some of our favourite restaurants and trying some new ones.\u00a0 One of the tried and loved is the Crabe Marteau<\/a> restaurant in the docks of Brest.\u00a0 It does exactly what it says on the tin (or shell?!) as you get given a crab and a hammer (and thankfully a bib!) and you have a great meal.\u00a0 But we went back to our local restaurant in Saint Rivoal, the Auberge du Menez, as well as the Caf\u00e9 du Grand Terrace in Morlaix where we also tried a new restaurant \u2013 the Brasserie de l\u2019Europe.\u00a0 Recommended.<\/p>\n

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We took the opportunity to do some cultural activities the most \u2018cultural\u2019 being visiting the Picasso exhibition which is in Landerneau for the remainder of the month.\u00a0 It is amazing that a small provincial town in Brittany manages to attract such a large and impressive collection but is all based on Landerneau being the \u2018home\u2019 of the E. Leclerc hypermarket chain and the establishment of a cultural foundation by the Leclerc family.\u00a0 Sadly this particular exhibition ends on 01 November but all of guests who have visited have really enjoyed it and we hope that, having had Chagall last year, next year may also have a major artist\u2019s work displayed.<\/p>\n

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Another, loosely, cultural activity was a visit a local pottery studio between us and Loperec.\u00a0 There are many different pottery studios in our vicinity but we had met this potter at a number of markets over the last 2 years and we love her work having bought some of it as gifts for family but we had never been to her studio \u2013 until now.\u00a0 It was fascinating to see and we have bought some lovely pieces for the g\u00eetes.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s activity was the annual Apple, Honey and Mushroom festival held between Saint Rivoal and the neighbouring village of Brasparts.\u00a0 This rural part of the world produces a lot of fabulous produce and there are many small farms and artisan producers of cider and honey, many of which were selling their produce however, it was also educational in displaying the wide variety of apples grown in Brittany.\u00a0 Mushrooming is also a major pastime in the forests around us and there were examples of all that you may find with a description highlighting which are edible, which toxic and which potentially fatal.\u00a0 They all look too similar for me to risk picking our own \u2013 although one of entertaining quirks of French life is that all pharmacists are qualified to identify which mushrooms are which are what you can eat safely.\u00a0 For the real specialists there were also displays of lichens and mosses of the area \u2013 a bit specialist interest for me but was attracting a lot of attention.<\/p>\n

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While David\u2019s parents are with us for the forthcoming week I hope to progress various projects and will blog again next week.<\/p>\n

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Salut.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess I need to start this week\u2019s blog with an apology as I didn\u2019t publish anything last week.\u00a0 Despite having made my New Year\u2019s Resolution last January \u2018promising\u2019 only to skip weeks if I say so in advance, I am fairly happy that I made it to the 1st October before breaking my resolution…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ben-and-daves-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}