{"id":2202,"date":"2018-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-03-june-rubbish\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:23","slug":"sunday-03-june-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-03-june-rubbish\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 03 June – Rubbish!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title of this week\u2019s blog was chosen for a number of reasons.\u00a0 One is that, as I mentioned at the end of the last blog<\/a>, the weather has now broken from the fantastic period of sunshine and blue skies that we had been enjoying.\u00a0 In fact, the forecast has been very variable all week and while we had a couple of wet days, the predicted deluge and thunderstorms were delayed and delayed \u2013 until today!<\/p>\n

As I write this, it is like winter with the sky covered in very threatening black clouds and I can hear the distant rumble of thunder.\u00a0 We have not yet had the downpour (although\u00a0 we drove through one earlier today coming back from Morlaix) but it is definitely coming which is very sad for our neighbours open garden day today.<\/p>\n

Having had a wetter week that normal we haven\u2019t made such great progress outside as we would have liked but I have at least started to clear the old parking space and create our petanque pitch.<\/p>\n

Even on the wet days we haven\u2019t been idle.\u00a0 I have managed to tick off a job that we have wanted to do for a while \u2013 sand down and re-stain the wooden stair treads in Priory which has made a big difference.<\/p>\n

David has started to clear out some of the boxes that we have been storing above his gym and transferring them into the new storeroom.\u00a0 We have rediscovered a number of books and novels that will eventually form the Kergudon library in the games room when we buy a little more furniture.<\/p>\n

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

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The main reason however for the title is we spent a couple of hours clearing out some of the accumulated rubbish which had been gathering in the garage in an effort to progress clearing the bays.\u00a0 It seemed that everything we bought during the build, floorboards, plastic and wooden lambris (T&G), laminate flooring, all came wrapped in some form of plastic and we hadn\u2019t thrown any of it away.\u00a0 Our plastic footprint this year has been huge and, with all the focus on the amount of the stuff that ends up in the oceans, we hope taking it to d\u00e9chetterie means that it will be disposed of in a responsible manner.<\/p>\n

We quickly and easily managed to fill the trailer completely as well as the boot of the car and yet it didn\u2019t seem to make the huge difference to clearing the garage bays as we\u2019d hoped!\u00a0 Even a second load of hardcore and rubble has barely dented the surface.\u00a0 It did highlight that, as we use the dog food sacks as rubbish bags, just how much we feed Garratt and Brandon.\u00a0 As there were so many bags, I’m amazed they’re not enormous!<\/p>\n

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

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I have however started to clear the petanque pitch.\u00a0 We have now decided to make the pitch slightly larger than we originally intended so, having carefully chosen the spot to temporarily leave the huge amounts of slate we dig up in the garden, I had to move it \u2013 a bit.\u00a0 The pile, Kergudon Cairn as it has been named, needed to shift about a metre and a half west which took best part of a day to achieve.<\/p>\n

Initially I wanted to save all of this slate for a project that I had in mind in the orchard \u2013 creating an artificial stream.\u00a0 But, as that is going to be a number of years away, we have had to come up with an alternative use for it.\u00a0 The plan now is to use it to make some mini-gabions that we will use to provide a barrier between the dive and the lawn.\u00a0 As we haven\u2019t yet bought the cages required I couldn\u2019t do the sensible thing and move the stones into place I just had to throw them from one side of the cairn to the other!<\/p>\n

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

That done, I was able to start clearing the weeds and rubbish from the area.\u00a0 I started on what I hoped will be the harder end to clear as it was where we had the concrete mixer sited for the Grange build and so had a large area where sand, cement and \u00a0ballast that had not made it into the mixer had set solid.\u00a0 It also had the \u2018cage\u2019 I made out of the old trampoline base when we first had Garratt and Mouse.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t used very much as Garratt hated being in it and Mouse very quickly discovered she was a cat and could climb out!\u00a0 I also had to remove a cherry tree that we had got at the annual kermesse (f\u00eate) at the Down Syndrome school in Morlaix.<\/p>\n

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

Those who have been reading the blog for a while may recall that the kermesse has a plant lottery where your ticket can win you anything from a petunia to a large tree.\u00a0 A couple of years ago we came home with this prunus but didn\u2019t know where to plant it so it had sat on our drive and had firmly taken root.\u00a0 Sadly we still couldn\u2019t decide where it should go so now it has gone \u2013 to the tip.\u00a0 Coincidentally today was kermesse day so we have a few more plants \u2013 and a better idea of where they are going!<\/p>\n

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

Slow progress therefore on the petanque pitch but some progress<\/a> and hopefully, weather dependent, I will be able to continue (and finish?) this week.<\/p>\n

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

Yesterday too was also a plant related day (sort of) as we visited our near neighbours, Bryan and Jackie, who are very keen gardeners and open their garden a couple of times a year in aid of charity.\u00a0 They have been living in their house a couple of years longer than we have been here but, in that time, they have turned what was effectively a cow field into a fabulous garden.\u00a0 We are very jealous every time we visit and see it mature and grow.\u00a0 One day perhaps Kergudon will be close \u2026\u00a0 They were very pleased with their turn out yesterday but we hope that the forecast hasn\u2019t made today too quiet.<\/p>\n

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

Last night we popped back to our local restaurant in St. Rivoal<\/a>.\u00a0 Not to eat this time but because the new owner, Yann, has started to host concerts in the barn behind the restaurant.\u00a0 It was a fun night and hopefully he will do it again sometime soon.<\/p>\n

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

Since starting to write the rain has also started to pour down \u2013 all good for our new plants!<\/p>\n

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

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