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<\/a><\/p>\nThe memorial does show however the impact of the 2 wars even on our small village. There were considerably more casualties during The Great War than WW2 and a number lived in Kergudon itself (marked), although we understand this refers to the hamlet rather than our buildings.\u00a0 As everywhere else the frequency of the same family name on the memorial shows just how devastating the war was to entire families.\u00a0 There are also a number of family names which are very familiar and still in the village – our neighbours are Pouliquens.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n During the Second World War we know that Germans were billeted in the house called The Old Presbytery, opposite Saint Cadou\u2019s church, and the old weathercock is in the Sizun museum with the bullet holes where it was used as unofficial target practice.<\/p>\n Work for me has been dictated by the very changeable weather and I have not been able to progress the new man shed.\u00a0 When it was dry I continued to clear the copse of trees that I had started the week before which has made a huge difference to that small area of garden.\u00a0 It always looks more impactful if you compare to the pictures before on previous blogs.\u00a0 With the decheterrie (tip) having more limited opening hours in the winter months, most of which seem to coincide with when David takes the car to work, I change between jobs if I can\u2019t empty the trailer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As such, this week I started clearing another unkempt area of the garden which was becoming more and more overgrown \u2013 the old chicken run.\u00a0 We have never cleared the old run or removed the broken down fence so, over the last 4 years it too has become overgrown with bramble, knot weed and sycamore saplings.\u00a0 We do use it occasionally to deposit garden rubbish prior to having a bonfire.<\/p>\n Our last big fire was earlier in the year in May after which I optimistically, and probably na\u00efvely, thought that I could strim through the rest of the area and then keep it under control with mowing.\u00a0 However, on closer look, I needed to manually clear the large amounts of waste that we had dumped there which had never made it onto a fire; remove the fairly sizable trees which have started to grow and make an effort to remove the old chicken wire.<\/p>\n This has proven so far to be a very slow job although I suspect I am doing it probably more thoroughly than is absolutely necessary as I am removing as much root of the weed as I can.\u00a0 Of course all that is doing is making another large pile of garden waste that I will have to burn when we have another dry spell \u2013 which, if the forecast is right might be in the next 10 days after Tuesday.<\/p>\n Foolishly I didn\u2019t take a before photo, other than this one which was after we had the last bonfire in May, but you get the idea.\u00a0 The current state was taken today.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n