A day out..

Yesterday I spent most of the day out in the garden doing one thing or another. I dug up a lot of weeds, mostly nettle type things, dandelions and other large weeds. I filled the wheel barrow 3 times and over the last two weeks my newly erected compost heap has two full compartments and one to start on. Now granted a lot of the stuff on them is from B'rassic park, but there's layers of other stuff too. Tomorrow I aim to finish off the last of B'rassic park - apart from the stems which are still drying so we can attempt to burn them. Hubby cut the grass and sprayed weedkiller in lots and lots of places. I cleared mole hill soil off the lawn so he could do that - 3 barrowloads of soil!

 You can just about see the compost heap in the back ground, the remains of the brassicas and the weed filled garden between the two!

Anyway after such a busy day yesterday we decided to have the day off today and go out. It's a bank holiday here in France - pentecote - so it was a little like a Sunday. The shops that were open all closed at lunchtime, including the supermarkets, and everyone (apart from the farmers!) had the afternoon off if not the whole day. I had seen a horse show advertised not that far from us. It was advertised as the regional finals for dressage, showjumping and xc over two days so I thought it would be an interesting day.

Now we had a lovely day, sat and watched showjumping in the sunshine for a couple of hours, once we'd found the place that was - not a sign in sight anywhere to give us a clue!It was, or appeared to be, very laid back for a regional final, with loose dogs wandering around the inside edge of the arena and people drinking wine and beer at 12 noon! 

After that we took a drive around the local area - mostly looking for somewhere for hubby to go fishing. No luck on that front but a nice walk down the side of the river Vendee where it's dammed and took a couple of photos, including one of a building that I thought would be ideal for a James Bond film!!

Anyway a very leisurely day had by us both. And the gardening and other jobs will wait til another day.