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Mouse has enjoyed the heat in the sun and likes to bathe on one of the window sills on the front of our house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Our guests currently staying in Priory also have a pet, Terri, a Parsons Terrier, who has found a favourite spot to watch people coming and going on our drive.\u00a0 Can you see her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other part of the prediction, me making lots of progress hasn\u2019t come to fruition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s not to stay I have been idle, and I have made some progress in clearing out the central garage bays. I haven\u2019t completed so I haven\u2019t taken any pictures, but I should have got to a point that it will be emptied before Christmas \u2013 this will be a big step!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was diverted from the garage when a local farmer we buy our firewood from telephoned to say he could deliver us a cord (here approximately 3 cubic metres). While the air source heat pumps we have fitted into the g\u00eetes have proven to be extremely effective, everyone enjoys the ambiance of a fire so we provide it for our guests. Also, as our own home is still principally heated by our po\u00eale (wood burning stove) in the evenings, we use a few cords a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before it was delivered, I had to empty one our wood stores so we could store it and keep it dry.\u00a0 When it was delivered I then spent a couple of days splitting and stacking so we now should be able to keep toasty warm for the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have also enjoyed a couple of social things \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week\u2019s blog had the good news that the restaurant in our neighbouring village of Saint Rivoal, the Auberge du Menez<\/a>, had reopened after an extended period of closure.\u00a0 Under its previous chef, we thought it was very good and we really enjoyed it.\u00a0 We were looking to find an early opportunity to try it under its new team and hope that it was still a good place to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With some good friends staying with us in Priory, we made the opportunity to visit last Wednesday night and, we are delighted to say, it is just as good as before and definitely worth a visit when you stay with us.\u00a0 The restaurant has had a bit of a refurb and it looks great (sorry, I didn\u2019t get a picture) but, more importantly, the menu is interesting and the food was delicious.\u00a0 We will definitely be back \u2013 often!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We continued with our visits to local Christmas fairs and went to Le Faou yesterday afternoon.\u00a0 Le Faou<\/a> is a very pretty little town that you would pass though travelling from us onto the Crozon peninsular.\u00a0 In the town is a very celebrated cr\u00eaperie<\/a> which has won the \u2018Best Cr\u00eaperie in Brittany\u2019 a number of times, most recently in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite everyone telling us how good it is, in our 7 years here, we hadn\u2019t eaten there so chose to do so for lunch before the Christmas fair started in the town.\u00a0 Its accolades are well deserved as their cr\u00eapes are excellent, both savoury and sweet, and, while the photo may not do it justice, there was a little bit of flare when a couple of our group ordered flamb\u00e9 cr\u00eapes for dessert.\u00a0 Well worth a visit if you enjoy the Breton staple of cr\u00eape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The market was a little smaller than we had anticipated but, while we were there for lunch and early afternoon, it looked like it was more geared up for a party that would continue into the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We made the most of the weather today with a walk in the fabulous forest of Huelgoat<\/a>.\u00a0 Huelgoat forest is famed for its geological formations and the \u2018chaos\u2019 and grottos that they form.\u00a0 The lake, created several hundred years ago, an important element of the lead and tin mines in the area, forms a feature of the town and looked amazing today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Priory-front.jpg\")
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