{"id":7176,"date":"2022-12-04T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2022-12-04T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T15:15:11","slug":"sunday-4-december-no-vember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-4-december-no-vember\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 4 December – NO-vember"},"content":{"rendered":"

This hasn\u2019t been a great year for me reliably writing a weekly blog!\u00a0 Looking back, the last blog I wrote<\/a> did say how horrified I was with how quickly 2022 seems to be passing as we were about to enter November.\u00a0 As things turned out, I didn\u2019t write anything all month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, I have said that when I don\u2019t write a blog it either means we haven\u2019t achieved very much; have been too busy \/ sociable to have been able to write, or we have been away from Kergudon.  In this case the latter is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November is often a quiet time for us in terms of guests so, in the past, we have used it for our own holidays.\u00a0 Generally October is busier as there are a couple of public holidays which \u00a0the French often use to take long weekends away.\u00a0 By November, the weather may have become very autumnal and people are waiting for Christmas and New Year for their next trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year we took a couple of weeks off, although that encompassed 3 Sundays hence very little blogging.\u00a0 Last year we had a \u2018relax by a pool and do nothing\u2019 sort of break but this year we treated ourselves to more of an exploration holiday, visiting a country neither of us had been before.\u00a0 While we would argue that 2 weeks in Finist\u00e8re is a great holiday for anyone (and we know somewhere with amazing accommodation!), to guarantee the sun at this time of year we need to travel a little further, and this year we went to Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been very fortunate and visited South America on a number of occasions and enjoyed it every time, but never Argentina so now was our chance.\u00a0 It is an amazing country to explore with fabulous natural wonders such as the Iguaz\u00fa waterfalls<\/a> in the north of the country and the Perito Moreno Glacier<\/a> in southern Patagonia.\u00a0 I could write huge amounts about our trip and share some of the 900 + photos we took while we were there but that\u2019s not the purpose of the Kergudon Blog!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is relevant is that, for a number of reasons, we flew to Argentina from Heathrow which means we needed to get from Saint Cadou to West London.\u00a0 Rather than drive which would have, probably, meant ferries and long-term car parking, we decided to let the train take the strain and took the TGV from Morlaix to Paris and Eurostar to St. Pancras.\u00a0 David and I hadn\u2019t used the trains since we moved here but it was a brilliant service.\u00a0 We have had London-based friends come and stay with us who have travelled by train and I can see why.\u00a0 Very convenient, and quick, although we didn\u2019t choose to stop for lunch in Paris as they did!\u00a0 Another option for getting out to your perfect Kergudon holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n

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TGV at max speed – an effortless way to get to Kergudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Between my last blog<\/a> and departing we were still busy with gite guests and in the week since we have been back we have also had to prepare Priory and Granary for guests who stayed with us this weekend.\u00a0 As a result not a huge amount was progressed but I did complete one useful maintenance task and although got back in the old veg patch on the back lawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The maintenance task was refurbishing and repainting the po\u00eales (wood burning stoves) in Hayloft and Granary.\u00a0 They are both very effective means of heating the g\u00eetes quickly and are lovely to use in the winter months but look so much better having been repainted and work better with the rope seals renewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hayloft poele repainted and refurbished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Granary poele repainted and refurbished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Granary poele repainted and refurbished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The veg patch, as you may recall, is a project I have been wanting to complete for a while.\u00a0 In fact I made good progress earlier in the year when I had cleared behind and an area within the small breeze block walls.\u00a0 Unfortunately I didn\u2019t capitalise on this and over the summer months the bramble and weed had grown back almost as thickly as before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Veg patch has regrown following its partial clearance earlier in the year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Veg patch has regrown following its partial clearance earlier in the year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully the work I had done in the spring did mean removing some of the new growth weed was easier and I made deeper inroads into the pile of wood.\u00a0 Another season outside however meant that less is going to be recoverable as useful firewood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now we are back I will be able to continue this clearing when the weather allows but the priority for the next couple of weeks will be decorating all the gites inside and, for the first time, outside in preparation for our Christmas guests.  We are delighted that this Christmas, for the first time since we arrived at Kergudon, every g\u00eete is full for Christmas.  Normally we have one or 2 g\u00eetes occupied but this year all 4 have guests staying so we want to make it magical for all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That at least means I will certainly have pictures to show you next week of some decorated g\u00eetes so I have no reason not to blog!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

This hasn\u2019t been a great year for me reliably writing a weekly blog!\u00a0 Looking back, the last blog I wrote did say how horrified I was with how quickly 2022 seems to be passing as we were about to enter November.\u00a0 As things turned out, I didn\u2019t write anything all month. Previously, I have said…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7176","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\/7176","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7177,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions\/7177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}