Are you bored?

Je ennuie, I am bored - was a new verb we learnt in our french lesson this week. I cannot quite remember how it came up, but I thought at the time it’s just not a verb I would use a lot (Ennuyer is to bore or annoy), so it hadn’t totally stuck. After french we needed to walk to the post office to post a cheque to buy some paint (don’t ask). On our way we saw Richard, the commune’s Jardinier (Gardner), we had a little chat with him, which I have to say is getting better, and when chatting about the curfew restrictions he happened to ask ‘vous ennuyez?’. Who’d have guessed.

On the way back we met a lovely pair of goats. I think they were trying to get into their barn for the evening. They very nearly followed us home!

Today Brian has been working on the floorboards in the Jeroboam, and he has made an amazing job of cleaning some of them up. Firstly he replaced a couple of small damaged pieces by cutting out the damaged area, then fitting a new piece in place.

Then he went back to address the area he’d previously been working on. I think the before and after shots tell the story.

Before

After