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good wine
Another yummy wine.
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bahhh
Sheep in the vines. It was a funny sight so we stopped to take a picture, then Sofian “bahed” at them from the car window, and one hundred and fifty plus sheep turned and ran… 🤗
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views from the new drone
A drone’s eye view offering amazing new perspectives.
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views of the new drone
We got a drone for Christmas!!!
Amazing shots from the drone to follow, but here are some pics of the drone from the back courtyard.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to you all. 🤗✨🎄
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We finally got the new living room curtains up!!
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Painting the kitchen cabinets from the gite, one door / drawer at a time. One undercoat done…… Ok this is going to take a while.
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Necessities of the season…. Also fun new toy!
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Good morning!
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We just went up for the day but we are already planning more trips to the snow.
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The beautiful road up to the ski slopes today.
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Wonderful low lying mists at dawn and dusk today but with a lovely warm clear day in between.
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They are now randomly sprinkled around the house and entrances.
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My mum and I joined a Christmas wreath making party with a bunch of local ladies. The haul of shared greenery was really impressive. Holy, cypress, fir, laurel, olive, fern, mistletoe, ivy, rose-hips and lots more I don’t know the names for.
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Sunrise
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Today we are sandblasting the big beams in the gite. They were black with age and presumably from the smoke of the old bake house. They are coming up really well.
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First fire!
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Installing our fist wood stove… definitely more to follow now that we know that there are actually two separate flus in each chimney!
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First frost
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The sugar maple has dropping the last of its leaves.
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We ate most of that Christmas cake before I thought to take a photo 😆
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Time for making the first of the Christmas cakes. 1000g of mixed dry fruit, heavy on the cherries and ginger; 10 ml of grand marnier, rind of a lemon and an orange, juice of one orange, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, French 4 spice, and salt; Mix and soak for a day or two. Then add 5 eggs, 200g of ground almonds, 60g of tapioca flour, potato flour, millet flour, tsp of Psyllium. 150g nuts. (Walnuts are my favorite), 250g of oil (coconut and olive), and one small grated apple. Ta da! Yum!
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Misty loveliness. The frozen mists are settling in for the duration now… it’s that time of year.
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Don found this amazing 1950s arial photo of the property: Long since forgotten roads, buildings that have been taken down, a lovely market garden / orchard below the orangery and a full woodlands on the south slope, all gone now. Lovely, inspiring, but sad in a wistful way.
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Bread baking. Gf of course.
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