Mady morrison

We woke early this morning, because we wanted to get our jobs done so we could enjoy an afternoon relaxing by the pool.

First though I was keen to do our morning stretch with Mady Morrison. We’ve not been able to do this every morning through the summer, and I’ve really missed it, so I’m trying to ensure we now take 15 minutes each morning to do one of her stretch routines. It makes such a big difference to our day. This is the link to her ultimate morning stretch. I think the key is not to worry if you can’t do all of it, just do as much as you can, well that’s what we do. We really don’t look like she does doing it, and there’s often lots of moans and groans as well.

After our morning ritual we nipped out for a well deserved coffee and a bun, before picking up the chicken from the butchers and dropping into the Intermarché for some shopping. We have guests arriving tomorrow and I’ll be cooking Sunday dinner for table d’hôte.

Early afternoon, we headed up to the pool for a lazy afternoon soaking up the warmth of the day under the shade of the umbrella, and taking a dip in the pool to cool down.

I was drifting in and out of sleep, listening to the near silence of the village. There’s some children just in the background laughing and playing. It’s the last couple of days before rentré (back to school), and they are obviously making the most of it. Brian is starting to stir, I can hear him get up, starting to potter and do his ‘pool jobs’. He’d mentioned he wanted to top the pool up, and luckily we use water from our well so we don’t have an issue keeping it at the right level.

One more snooze before we head down for dinner I think.