{"id":7822,"date":"2023-10-08T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/?p=7822"},"modified":"2023-10-08T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:53:41","slug":"sunday-08-october-family-felling-and-fungi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-08-october-family-felling-and-fungi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 08 October \u2013 Family, Felling and Fungi"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of my last blog<\/a>, I said that we had just welcomed Dave\u2019s uncle and aunt and were about to welcome my own uncle and aunt who were staying with us with some of their oldest friends who were visiting from upstate New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also said that I would write a blog last Sunday if I had the energy.\u00a0 The lack of blog may tell you how I felt then (!) but also that, again, the vast majority of my project time was focused on the same thing \u2013 continuing to clear the old vegetable patch before the diggers arrive on Monday 16th<\/sup> to start the swimming pool build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned too that at 5am on Dave\u2019s uncle and aunt\u2019s first morning, they had a rude awakening with water dripping down from the heater in the eaves, through their shower room and into the ground floor bathroom.\u00a0 In those 2 weeks we have removed the old, holed, tank and bought, but not yet installed, a new tank while we wait for the wood to dry out and research solutions to prevent any similar \u2018flood\u2019 in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This meant that, after a couple of nights in Priory where they had access to hot water, Dave\u2019s uncle and aunt were happy to return to Granary and, despite offering hot showers elsewhere, they braved cold showers for their last 4 days! Brrrr …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With family here the last 2 weeks have been sociable and given us the excuse (if one were needed) to visit some of our local restaurants.\u00a0 With American guests, we also wanted to give them some French, and Breton, experiences. As such one day we went for lunch at the ouvrier restaurant, the Auberge\u2019In<\/a>, between Sizun and Landerneau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ouvrier restaurants, which offer filling lunch menus at a low cost for workers (ouvriers) are common features in France and the Auberge\u2019In is amazing.  It offers a huge buffet selection of starters; a choice of 5 mains; dessert buffet, wine (if wanted) and coffee all for less than 15 \u20ac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another night, which happened to be our American guests 50th<\/sup> Wedding Anniversary, we went to Chez Jannie<\/a>, an amazing seafood restaurant in Roscoff.\u00a0 It was a little further to travel but allowed our guests to enjoy an amazing Fruits de Mer \u2013 a must when in Brittany!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave\u2019s uncle and aunt left us last Saturday and my uncle and aunt left with our American guests last Sunday who were replaced by Dave\u2019s Dad who has come to visit for a couple of weeks, and that day the fun continued!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercedes closed her restaurant on the lake, Au Lac, after lunch service last Sunday, and was kind enough to throw a little party for her staff and invited guests which was a perfect opportunity for David\u2019s Dad to catch up with a few of our local friends.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The last blog mentioned that, having felled some horse chestnuts, both intentionally and un-intentionally, the weather changed and I hadn\u2019t managed to clear the wood.\u00a0 Thankfully, since then, we have enjoyed dry, recently hot, days with very little wind which has allowed us to continue the clearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of it has been stripping the branches off the chestnuts to be shredded; taking the broken breeze blocks to the d\u00e9chetterie (five round trips in one day); logging the felled trees and then actually doing the shredding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest change has come with felling the large, light absorbing leylandii that we have hated since we arrived.\u00a0 Thankfully, the tree had grown with a slight lean in the direction that we wanted to fell it and, having cleared anything that may foul its fall, it came down like a dream \u2013 but led to more stripping, logging and shredding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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