{"id":2261,"date":"2018-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-08-july-store-moore-tour\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:25","slug":"sunday-08-july-store-moore-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-08-july-store-moore-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 08 July &#8211; Store, Moore, Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-01-july-drought-or-deluge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last week\u2019s blog<\/a> picked up on my comment of the previous week, that we need to take more time off and enjoy the experience of being in France, and the weather when that allows.\u00a0 While we didn\u2019t do that last week, looking back, I am afraid that I can probably say that I have achieved less last week than any other since we have lived here!<\/p>\n<p>This was partly because we were hosting my Dad and his wife, and partly because there has been a lot of good sport worth watching!<\/p>\n<p>Workwise, I started to recommission (aka clear and clean) the boot room.\u00a0 As, over the construction of the garage, my man-shed has become a dumping ground and so completely unusable as a workshop, the boot room took its place.\u00a0 The consequence of this was that the boot room became more and more of a dumping ground itself, including where we stored the old water heater that we removed from Granary in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t taken any pictures of the room before the clear up but, having built the new Granary fences in it there was lots of sawdust on the floor, not to mention lots of cobwebs everywhere!\u00a0 Having been a quiet week, the clear up isn\u2019t actually yet finished but I will show some pics next week.<\/p>\n<p>The only other work task begun was to clear the north end of Grange.\u00a0 Again, this area has not been a focus up to now and was where I had piled (more) of the slate that I had dug up when I rebuilt the back wall.\u00a0 It had slowly become overgrown with bramble and a sycamore tree had taken root.\u00a0 As we have now decided to put the bins on that end of the garage, and we want to gravel that area, it needed to be cleared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/End-Grange-pre-clearing-slate.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3369 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/End-Grange-pre-clearing-slate-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/224;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/End-Grange-pre-clearing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3370 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/End-Grange-pre-clearing-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/224;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David did his yoga on the shores of the Lac du Drennec on a beautiful morning and then, as there were some very large pieces of stone, a friend of his joined us to start the clearance.\u00a0 Again this isn\u2019t yet complete!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/End-Grange-in-process-of-clearing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3368 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/End-Grange-in-process-of-clearing-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/224;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned, we were hosting my Dad and his wife for the week and, while they were with us, we took the opportunity to visit this summer\u2019s exhibition in the Leclerc Cultural Foundation in Landerneau which is on Henry Moore.<\/p>\n<p>As most, I knew of the sculpture work of Henry Moore but this exhibition was an excellent collection of his drawings, sketches, models and architectural work as well as sculpture.\u00a0 It is another excellent exhibition and, being open to 4th November, is well worth a visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Moore-Reclining-Body.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3376 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Moore-Reclining-Body-300x261.jpeg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/261;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Moore-Family-Group.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3375 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Moore-Family-Group-300x241.jpeg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/241;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Moore-Drawings.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3372 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Moore-Drawings-300x197.jpeg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/197;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Moore-Exhibition-Collection.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3373 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Moore-Exhibition-Collection-300x249.jpeg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/249;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I haven\u2019t achieved too much last week, next week will be busier but, of course, there is another must-see event as the Tour de France passes through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingstage.com\/tour-de-france-2018-route\/stage-6-tdf-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sizun<\/a>.\u00a0 The stage we are closest to sees the tour cycle from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingstage.com\/tour-de-france-2018-route\/stage-6-tdf-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brest to M\u00fbr-de-Bretagne<\/a> passing through the centre of our closest market town, Sizun, and through to Commana, Huelgoat and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>All the villages along the route are starting to make their preparations for the eyes of the world to be on them, albeit briefly.\u00a0 This generally involves tying colourful bicycles to lampposts and roadsigns.\u00a0 I suspect Sizun will do more in the coming few days \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sizun-Bike.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3378 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sizun-Bike-300x145.jpeg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/145;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salut.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s blog picked up on my comment of the previous week, that we need to take more time off and enjoy the experience of being in France, and the weather when that allows.\u00a0 While we didn\u2019t do that last week, looking back, I am afraid that I can probably say that I have achieved&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","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\/2261","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=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}