{"id":7530,"date":"2023-06-18T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T16:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2023-06-18T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T16:29:28","slug":"sunday-18-june-mauvaises-herbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-18-june-mauvaises-herbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 18 June \u2013 Mauvaises Herbes"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have seen that I didn\u2019t post a blog last Sunday \u2013 sorry.  We had had a productive week but not necessarily on things that made for great pictures or an interesting read!  Unfortunately, even now, I haven\u2019t taken as many \u2018before\u2019 photos of what we have achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le last blog<\/a> said that we had completed the exterior work of Stable but that there was a lot to do to get it to a state where we could allow guests to stay \u2013 and our first guests of the season were booked in for the following Wednesday.\u00a0 Therefore, the first half of the week was spent weeding the front terrace which we don\u2019t keep on top of over the winter, and giving the interior the deepest clean it\u2019s had probably since we last decorated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, while cleaning, we found that while the roofers were with us, they had accidentally damaged one of the tiles in the bathroom which now needs replacing.  We know that the tiles we used are no longer available but, thankfully we bought a few spare when we did the work so, as soon as I have some adhesive, I will be able to replace the damaged tile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside, I have started to repair the lawn that suffered when the roofer\u2019s lorry got stuck after our last wet day.\u00a0 It continues to prove extremely useful having a friend with a ready supply of top soil and, during the course of the week I managed to get 3 trailer loads that I have spread on the lawn to fill the ruts.\u00a0 I think I will need at least another 3 loads to finish the job and the a period of rain to settle it down and encourage the grass to grown through.\u00a0 At this point, with it being so dry the birds seem to really enjoy using it as a dust bath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stable terrace cleared<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Also outside, I spent a few hours tidying up the hedge we had begun to shape behind Stable alongside Hent Gorreker.\u00a0 One of the tasks we were able to do in the months of confinement in 2020<\/a> was to cut down some very large buxus-type trees; trimmed a privet bush and planted some lonicera cuttings to create a hedge that will, eventually, enclose a new terrace we plan to create behind the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having left it alone since that initial work, we were pleased to see that the buxus has back budded and bushed out from the base.  The loniceras have also become well established and created strong plants \u2013 the one closest to the building took a bit of a battering with the roof work but has already started to re-shoot.  A couple of unidentified, extremely thorny plants had also grown rapidly and were taller than the other plants and risked hindering their growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cut out the spiky unknown intruder and tidied up the remainder of the hedging which is starting to look good and should be a decent border when we do manage to create the terrace \u2013 although when that\u2019ll be we\u2019re not sure \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last weekend we decided to have a couple of days off.\u00a0 Last Saturday was a beautiful day and would be the last Saturday when we didn\u2019t have to turn g\u00eetes around until the end of September so we decided to head north and, as we had done a few weeks ago with David\u2019s Dad, we went to the Morlaix market before continuing on to Carantec to have lunch somewhere we enjoy overlooking the beach \u2013 Chez Gabi.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Last Sunday was the inaugural Sizun Soap Box Derby which we visited and really enjoyed it.\u00a0 When we moved to France, Sizun held a biennial Grand Prix for vintage cars.\u00a0 That too was a great day and very successful for the town.\u00a0 Sadly, either the inevitable Health & Safety risks of old cars hurtling around a tight town centre course separated from the crowds with only straw bales, or just a killjoy attitude from some motoring body or other, eventually caught up with it and the final Grand Prix was held in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps as a replacement for the Grand Prix, or maybe just as a fun new town event, the Comit\u00e9 d\u2019Animation of Sizun organised a soap box race down the hill leading away from the town centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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