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Wordless Wednesday

Aubeterre sur Dronne

C'est la Rentrée

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Yesterday saw the end of the holidays and the start of another school year.

The Young One is now in Premiére at Lycée and will be sitting her Baccalaureate Française next June. Yikes! Doesn't time fly!

Funnily enough, I was pondering about life, the universe and everything this morning whilst hanging out the washing and realised that the weather has turned autumnal overnight! How does the weather know it was rentrée yesterday?

The figs started ripening last week and we were getting excited. Fig Chutney. Yum!

Only thing is we can't get near them because of the Hornets.

Then I noticed the walnuts have started falling.

I don't think we're going to get a very good crop this year.  There are a lot still in their shells which are green, or black and is a bad sign.

More and more are falling like that every year. If you manage to get the shells off, the nuts aren't good so it's not worth the hassle of walnut juice stained hands.

The grapes are ripening fast too

and the lovely Maria has returned from her holidays, bringing us fresh bread on Tuesday's and Saturday's.

Today's bread was a gorgeous wholegrain loaf. Sorry - no photo - there isn't any left!

My beautiful black girl has come out of her summer sleeping place and returned to the courtyard for her afternoon nap.

Even she knows it's September. She's started coming in at night and sleeping on the sofa.  This morning she was snuggled up in the scrap bin on the sewing table.

That's it for now - got to sort out the sewing room and then think about shutting the pool up.

More soon.

Music is Magic

The Young One went back to lycée today and I'm feeling a bit miz.

The only thing to chase those blues away is sew, sew, sew.

Et voila!

Music is Magic

I tried Tonya's way of doing a W, but it looked lumpy. So I used Lynne's method. It's not for the faint hearted! A lot of fabric ended up in the bin, but I got there in the end.

Now to have a rummage to find suitable fabric for the exclamation mark at the end.

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Oh Heavy Sigh

That's what I did when clicked "New Post".

Google Chrome is getting slower and slower and reading blogs is getting harder.

I'm just reading the Liberated Quilters Web Ring at the moment, and even getting behind on that. It's like walking through treacle.

Firefox is fine, but I miss Chrome.

However, in between dodging the dreaded Hornets who are eating all the figs (The Old One is in despair), making sure The Young One is ready for Rentrée on Monday evening and generally trying to keep out of the heat, I have been sewing.

Et voila!

I wasn't at all sure the dark green would work, but the TheYoung One assures me it does, providing I don't use any more.

Looking at this photo, I think the "d" needs to be redone, but I'm liking the layout so far and I do like that y.

I'm limbering up for "all we do here!". The colours are the big thing now. A bit more purple I think and perhaps the exclamation mark at the end should be the same fabric as the first A to round it off. On the other hand I've got some black and white star fabric which would be great.

I'm now going to see if this will publish via Chrome so will wish you a happy day/evening/night wherever you are.

More soon.

New Blog on the Block

and it's fascinating.

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