{"id":8563,"date":"2024-06-02T17:20:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2024-06-02T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:20:28","slug":"sunday-02-june-june-so-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-02-june-june-so-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 02 June \u2013 June, so soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week\u2019s blog<\/a> predicted a number of things, some of which came true!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first was that we were expecting a delivery of breeze blocks on Monday for the team to continue with the pool build.  They duly arrived and the project continues to progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The breeze blocks were laid over a couple of, very wet, days up to the level required for the terrace and M. Guilpain, the pool builder, returned to rearrange what was becoming a snake\u2019s wedding of the tubing and pipework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned last week that the foundations provided a better visual of the footprint of the elements of the pool but, actually, the breeze block foundations do that even more.\u00a0 You can now see what will be the plant room for the pool, the pool house, and the size of the terrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next steps, which we hope will happen next week, are for the landscaper to return and fill the spaces in the foundation walls to the correct height before the larger concrete pad is laid that will be the base for the terrace and pool house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the statements I made in last week\u2019s blog was that we would soon see the pool house start to come out of the ground.  However, we have now agreed with the builder that once the concrete slab is laid we will pause the build for the duration of the summer months so as not to create excessive noise for our guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of the poor weather we have experienced this winter and spring, the builder has a number of other jobs that haven\u2019t progressed as much as he would have hoped so he is more than happy to focus on these while we have guests in the g\u00eetes.  But not until the concrete is laid \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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In last week\u2019s blog I also said that I would be able to level the lawn with some of the large pile of soil we have generated from the pool.\u00a0 Last Monday, I started to do this manually so I could also remove the stone and knotweed root before moving it.\u00a0 However, after a morning\u2019s work, I realised I needed a lot more soil moved than is sensible to do by hand.\u00a0 As we are expecting the digger back next week (hopefully), I will ask him to distribute the soil and I can then level and de-stone \/ root it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only other major project I have managed to make any progress on is more hedge cutting.  There are still a couple of hedges I hadn\u2019t managed to trim for a year, one of which was the Granary garden\u2019s boundary with Hent Gorreker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we arrived this was entirely overgrown privet.\u00a0 Sadly, in the last few years we have suffered from honey fungus in the soil which privet is extremely susceptible to and causes its death.\u00a0 A few years ago, we had a large gap in part of the hedge with the first privet plants dying back which we filled with our new favourite hedging plant \u2013 griselinia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is now well established and has almost filled the space.  We have pre-empted the death of the remainder of the privet by underplanting with griselinia cuttings most of which have survived and started to grow – despite us not controlling the weed growth under the hedge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, I have cut the Hent Gorreker side of the hedge and cleared the weeds under the hedge on both sides.  Tomorrow I will have to finish the job by cutting on the Granary side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we did manage a Sunday stroll.  This time, we returned to the east side of the Morlaix estuary and started our circuit in the village of Saint Samson.  We hadn\u2019t walked most of the route before although a small section was on a route we had done a number of years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love our location for lots of reasons including that it opens up almost the entirety of the Finist\u00e8re coast and it is so varied.\u00a0 The rock formations on much of it are amazing, not all of them look terribly natural(!), and some of the beaches could easily be confused for the Mediterranean, Caribbean or any tropical location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This route gave us good views of the Cairn de Barnenez<\/a>, somewhere we still haven\u2019t visited but intend to, which is one of the oldest and largest megalithic monuments<\/a> in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For seafood lovers, this part of the world has lots of oyster farms including a few in or near T\u00e9r\u00e9nez (a different T\u00e9r\u00e9nez from that by the bridge to the Crozon peninsula) including the Oysters of Sterec<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The forecast is looking great for next week, something I can\u2019t often say, so we should be able to make some good progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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