Makes me smile

On my drive home from yoga last night, I couldn’t resist stopping to take a photograph of them harvesting the wheat. The fields on the plateaus around the vineyards are quite small in comparison to the huge fields found across the predominately agricultural areas of France. It’s wonderful to see the rewards of all the hard work put in over the previous months now coming to fruition. It’s such a positive feeling of summer, and always makes me smile.

When I got home Brian had a surprise for me. He had located all the pieces, and put together, my sun-lounger which I’d had in Kent. I had asked if he could set it up for me in the walled garden, as I thought it would be an ideal spot to enjoy a quiet cup of tea, or a little nap between jobs. But he’d kept telling me it was broken and some bits were missing, and that he needed to find some bolts for it.

He managed to locate all the major parts, and in the end he found some bolts that were the right diameter, but the wrong length. He needed them to be screw thread at both ends, so he sawed the heads off and filed them smooth.

There were a few more repairs, but now I have my sun-lounger back. I will be testing it out later this week.