I like to think I will welcome anyone to my little offering and can cater to most diets...Last weekend I had a quite unusual guest. I have to say he was quiet and undemanding. He didn't comment on the bed or the breakfast but I do believe he enjoyed his stay although he did need a bit of cling film for his onward journey ...Ladies and gentlemen let me introduce Noel...possibly the most travelled holidaying fish in France...His chauffeurs were cool and friendly as well!...Noel enjoying table d'hote...
We English think we know tea and of course we do! I recently had the most lovely French guests who also know tea, they know it so well they make it...We're not talking builders black here, we are talking refined and delicate. Having stayed in my room they promised to send me samples of their tea to try...and they did...and I have been 'testing' it on my guests, they have all loved it...They don't just make tea they also make amazing aromatic salts. The only problem I have found with the tea is that the packaging is so beautiful that it takes a very brave woman to open it! You can find their tea and salt here: www.la-recolte-de-meme-renee.fr (ha I don't know how to do a link on this blog!) The herbs are grown locally to me and if you are passing pop in and enjoy a cup
Because I'm feeling bad because I've neglected you I thought I'd treat you to a picture of the kitchen floor. The tiles are 20cmx20cm. They are a type of tile called Carreaux de Ciment. I don't think I would ever have chosen them, but I've come to love them. I've based the kitchen decoration on them and soon I'll share some kitchen pictures.
Oh dear I haven't posted for a while...so sorry, I've been being busy and getting on with it. I've started painting the new shower room...Sometimes I try to calculate how much white paint I have got through it's got to be well over 100L! So yet another space gets the white paint treatment. This shower room has been sitting in a sorry state for over a year whilst I got the first room up and running...I started painting it and then realised I was about to forget the 'before' pictures. Below another view...showing the loo don't I treat you to visual delights! In the grenier (attic) of this house is a beam that has some graffiti from 1879, it say something like 'the good abbe renewed this roof in 1879' I've wanted to leave my mark too. I finally found a spot where my graffiti could exist and it's behind where the shower cubicle will be...You'll have to wait...I'll get a picture of 'my mark' when I give you the 'after' pictures
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