Good gosh! Lisbeth's working inside and outside and up and down stairs and having visitors and staying out late...............and.............
She did more sorting and organizing in the house on Sunday morning then went out with her French friends to an Exposition (Exhibition) near Poitiers in the afternoon. They stopped en route to put green box leaves ('blessed' at a church service) on the graves of their relatives. She said it was a really quite a nice thing to do and everyone was out doing the same. Mme Sage had kept back some of the leaves for Lisbeth. It is the custom, here, to keep a bunch somewhere in the house to protect it for the coming year. Lisbeth will divide hers up between the house and her little building in the garden.
The Exhibition consisted of paintings, jewelry, sculptures and pottery made by local artists. She said it was all very interesting but not as interesting as the town. Lisbeth likes old towns and this one had a Gallo-Roman church, a monastery and real monks.
Today, Lisbeth had a visitor in the morning, worked in the garden until 4pm, (mowing and pruning and the like), then went to see her friend Mme Houx. She finds this particular friend truly inspiring and has come back feeling much more positive about getting to grips with all the work that's been piling up while she's been in England. Thank goodness, is all I can say, because she's been a bit down about it all since she arrived back and has been looking at houses on the web. Not a good sign. Let's hope that things begin to look up on this house front, from here in!
She did more sorting and organizing in the house on Sunday morning then went out with her French friends to an Exposition (Exhibition) near Poitiers in the afternoon. They stopped en route to put green box leaves ('blessed' at a church service) on the graves of their relatives. She said it was a really quite a nice thing to do and everyone was out doing the same. Mme Sage had kept back some of the leaves for Lisbeth. It is the custom, here, to keep a bunch somewhere in the house to protect it for the coming year. Lisbeth will divide hers up between the house and her little building in the garden.
The Exhibition consisted of paintings, jewelry, sculptures and pottery made by local artists. She said it was all very interesting but not as interesting as the town. Lisbeth likes old towns and this one had a Gallo-Roman church, a monastery and real monks.
Today, Lisbeth had a visitor in the morning, worked in the garden until 4pm, (mowing and pruning and the like), then went to see her friend Mme Houx. She finds this particular friend truly inspiring and has come back feeling much more positive about getting to grips with all the work that's been piling up while she's been in England. Thank goodness, is all I can say, because she's been a bit down about it all since she arrived back and has been looking at houses on the web. Not a good sign. Let's hope that things begin to look up on this house front, from here in!
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