{"id":9470,"date":"2025-01-19T14:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/?p=9470"},"modified":"2025-01-19T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:13:42","slug":"sunday-19-january-ahead-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-19-january-ahead-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 19 January \u2013 Ahead of the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week\u2019s blog<\/a> was relatively short as my sole focus had been to de-rig the Christmas decorations.\u00a0 This week\u2019s will be shorter still as that has remained my principal effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time last week, I had cleared our own house and had almost finished those in Granary.\u00a0 I said that it was my hope that everything will be de-rigged and packed away by today.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve done it.\u00a0 This is the first \u2018success\u2019 of the year as it puts us ahead of 2024 when my previous blogs showed that I hadn\u2019t achieved that milestone until early March<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(As an aside, we only put up 4 Christmas trees for Christmas 2024.\u00a0 If our plans come to fruition (and we have sufficient guests) we will have 7 trees up for next Christmas!\u00a0 We\u2019re really pleased as we already have a reservation for Priory for Christmas and New Year 2025.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We needed to have Granary cleared as we welcomed our first arrivals of 2025 on Friday night with a couple who had stayed with us before and wanted to celebrate a birthday back in the Monts D\u2019Arr\u00e9e. We\u2019re delighted they came back to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also continued with our weekend walks but reversed the days.  Rather than a Sunday stroll, yesterday we had a Saturday stroll as the forecast was better and we awoke to a perfect winter\u2019s day of clear blue skies and bright sunshine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the same reasons as last week, we returned to the next section of the Nantes \u2013 Brest canal (perhaps in time we\u2019ll walk its entire length!) and started at Pont Ar Stang (where the D117 crosses the canal to the east of Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Faou) and walked north east towards Landeleau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the conditions couldn\u2019t have been more different from last week, and Ch\u00e2teauneuf was very different from Saint Cadou.  To drive from us to the canal we go over the Monts D\u2019Arr\u00e9e reaching a high point between Saint Rivoal and Brasparts which is where the fog started and the temperature dropped \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday\u2019s photos show that there was still lots of water flowing along the canal, although the level was lower than last week, and there was lots of evidence where it had flooded along its length.  Comparing yesterday\u2019s photos to last Sunday’s you can see the difference in the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I would say we made the wrong decision but the forecast was correct and we woke this morning to cloudier, wetter weather.\u00a0 However, despite the conditions we enjoyed the walk and saw an amazing array of wildlife.\u00a0 You can always see ducks and heron on the canal, but yesterday we saw a fox on the opposite side of the water (which was very carefully observing Garratt and Brandon!); a green woodpecker and an otter (the first either of us have seen in the wild) \u2013 which you can just make out in the picture, you\u2019ll have to take our word for it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems the weather is due to change at the start of next week with the high pressure we\u2019ve enjoyed being replaced by the more usual pattern of low pressure systems coming through with their associated fronts and therefore rainy periods.  The focus will be back indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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