{"id":2069,"date":"2018-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-1st-april-happy-easter-to-yew\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:20","slug":"sunday-1st-april-happy-easter-to-yew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-1st-april-happy-easter-to-yew\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 1st April – Happy Easter to Yew"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have now identified the issue that prevented me adding any images to last week\u2019s blog<\/a>.\u00a0 It seems that we had reached our storage limit on WordPress and so couldn\u2019t add any more pics.\u00a0 Having spent a day during the week doing some cleaning up and archiving we are now able to add this week\u2019s photos.\u00a0 However, I thought I\u2019d start with some of the images that I wanted to share last Sunday.<\/p>\n

These are the garage bays that I managed to complete with the volige cladding on the inside \u2013 no additional progress made this week on the last.<\/p>\n

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This is the 3rd<\/sup> of our cherry trees now planted\u00a0 We can\u2019t wait to see them blossom as, we hope, we have bought a variety which should be especially floriferous:<\/p>\n

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And this is the ginkgo which we had put in the ground.\u00a0 No sign of life yet but with this weather we are not overly surprised!<\/p>\n

\"Ginkgo<\/a><\/p>\n

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This week actually began with more garden work as the weather was dry for the first couple of days.\u00a0 I managed to do something that we have wanted to do for weeks and have planted the jungle bed.\u00a0 We think it looks great, and hopefully will be even better when we add some capping stones on the front wall and a gravel mulch at some point, certainly we hope you’ll agree that it looks rather better now than it did a few weeks ago<\/a>!\u00a0 We have chosen some plants that we hope will get quite large and dramatic, although a number do seem to have been knocked back by the really cold weather we had a few weeks ago but we hope they will recover \u2013 all their roots looked pretty healthy when we planted them.<\/p>\n

\"Jungle<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday was a little wetter but we managed to do couple more outside things including removing another of the old apple tree stumps that were in the orchard lawn.\u00a0 This tree had fallen down before we arrived and the stump was a little taller but I cut it down in our first year.\u00a0 As the ground is so soft and wet now, thought it was a good time to remove it \u2013 makes the lawn mowing so much easier!<\/p>\n

\"Stump<\/a><\/p>\n

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Our electrician came back on Wednesday and Grange is now fully wired in.\u00a0 For the first time there is no electrical umbilical between Grange and my man-shed.\u00a0 Another small but useful step!<\/p>\n

Then from Thursday it has been much more what we are used to this year \u2013 wet, cold and breezy.\u00a0 Our focus shifted back inside Grange and we are now making really good progress to completion of the first floor at least.<\/p>\n

It took a couple of days to finish the storeroom which, I am excited to say, is now actually starting to store stuff.\u00a0 We think this will be a revelation for us and make a significant to our lives.\u00a0 Since living here we have \u2018stored\u2019 things just about anywhere we could find space which was predominantly the top floor of our own house or above Dave\u2019s gym.\u00a0 This meant that the former became a pretty chaotic dumping ground, and the latter a less accessible but equally disorganised state.\u00a0 Now we can at last put things in a proper place where we can find them when we need them, less is likely to get lost \/ damaged \/ forgotten and we get our own house back.\u00a0 It\u2019s really appealing to my OCD side!<\/p>\n

\"Storage<\/a><\/p>\n

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I have also started to lay the floor in the Games Room end which I wasn\u2019t expecting to do. At present it does all seem like pine overload \u2013 a bit Swedish sauna chic \u2013 but when the floor is varnished it will be a darker colour and we have a plan to wash the walls and ceiling at some point but probably not until the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\"Laying<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Floor<\/a><\/p>\n

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We are very fortunate to have a couple of families staying with us for Easter in Priory and Granary.\u00a0 It has meant Dave had had a very busy day as he has cooked one of his 3-course meals for Granary at lunchtime and is cooking another for Priory this evening \u2013 as well as us having an Easter meal \u2013 busy day.<\/p>\n

Sadly however, the weather has meant that we have had to postpone the Easter Egg hunt we had promised our guests and we hope that the weather may allow us to do it tomorrow.\u00a0 Worst case we will give the eggs to the parents and they can have a hunt within the g\u00eetes!<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is the annual March\u00e9 sur l\u2019eau<\/a> at the Lac du Drennec barrage.\u00a0 It is always a good event and an opportunity to catch up with friends and neighbours.<\/p>\n

The forecast for the rest of the week, thankfully, looks like an improving picture with maybe some rarely seen (for 2018) sun on Wednesday.\u00a0 This will allow me to start to plant the yews that we ordered this week around the boundary of Kergudon.<\/p>\n

\"Yew<\/a><\/p>\n

Since we arrived we have wanted to establish a half-decent hedge on our perimeter as it is very open and exposed in places.\u00a0 In our first winter I \u2018acquired\u2019 a number of hollies and yews from the forest and planted them around the back lawn.\u00a0 Most seem to have survived but they are all still very small and very slow growing so, unless you look carefully, you can\u2019t really see anything there.\u00a0 This proved the case when the commune cleared the ditch alongside Str\u00e9at al Louarn behind us and threw all of the debris onto our bank covering some of those slow growing plants.\u00a0 Thankfully none were snapped and I managed to clear them off in time so they seem to have survived the ordeal.<\/p>\n

We decided that we would buy 100 small yews to add to the plants on the boundary which will not only make a thicker hedge (eventually) but, as they are slightly taller already, should be evident that we\u2019re trying to grow things there other than bramble!<\/p>\n

Lots to carry on with in the coming week!<\/p>\n

\u00c0 bient\u00f4t.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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