Monday 27 August 2012

Back


No more hot, lazy days beside our friends' lake.


No more light-pollution free nights, waiting with bated breath for stars to go shooting by.


No more scurrying round vide-greniers for the best and prettiest bargains.


No more nights so peaceful that the only noise you hear are the owls hooting and the occasional braying of the love-lorn donkey next door.


No more hiding the eggs from the marauding marten, and fruit from the loir (edible dormouse).



Mugshots courtesy of Google images - our culprits are still at large!
The scene of the crime - there should be 4 eggs here...


No more bats scaring the living daylights out of Miss U-t-B.



(NB: A bat did not write this message.  Miss U-t-B did after a rather fraught first night, during which I had consoled her with the 'peace' of the countryside.)

No more rounds of the 'Build a Bed' competition, in which you get presented with an assortment of bed parts and can sleep in any bed you manage to create from the bits.




We had a truly fabulous holiday, even if it was on a building site!  In fact we enjoyed it so much, we arrived back and have turned this house into a building site too...


I have been away from blogging (and computers in general) so long I have almost forgotten what to do.  Looking forward to catching up with some blog reading very soon!

8 comments:

  1. Welcome back Alix ... looks like you had a fabulous time! Poor donkey, why is he lovelorn?

    Have a great Bank Holiday Monday

    Claire xxx

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  2. Sounds like you had a wonderful time, despite the unusual occurrences!
    Liz @ Shortbread & Ginger

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  3. Welcome back, looks as though you've had a lovely holiday! It's a long time since I posted something myself.

    Thank you for sharing

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  4. Your holiday sounds wonderful despite the marauding bats.

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  5. Good to have you back. I love your daughter's "Many a horror movie....." and she's right! Looks like you're going to be busy...............

    x

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  6. Sorry, but with my "nom de plume" I'm on the side of the dormice!!!

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  7. Welcome back from another absentee blogger - although not such a lovely break as yours sadly, only wet Cornwall!
    Hope you all had a great time despite the wildlife!
    Looks like you're going to be busy......
    Gill xx

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  8. Welcome back...I did have to smile about the eggs. I went to heat up some left over gravy in which I'd added two slices of left over roast beef to find only one slice and Frankie washing her whiskers !
    Looks like a wonderful place where you stayed - bats n' all. We had one trapped in our lampshade once & had to free it.

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