{"id":120,"date":"2012-04-14T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blogtest\/?p=120"},"modified":"2012-04-14T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T18:34:00","slug":"14042012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/14042012.html","title":{"rendered":"14\/04\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

A spot of grocery shopping in the morning results in my buying a couple of pieces of meat which would be ideal barbecue material. As it\u2019s turned out to be a nice sunny day, this will be what we\u2019ll do for supper.<\/p>\n

LSS has been busy organising some \u201chome help\u201d; basically this is done by a company which specialises in looking after elderly people. Most of the costs will be met by the aged FIL\u2019s insurance policy, but he\u2019ll still need to contribute something. He\u2019s not too happy about the idea but LSS has pointed out that we didn\u2019t come to France solely with the aim of looking after him; we don\u2019t mind helping out, but full-time carers we are not! <\/p>\n

I spent the afternoon cutting through the stems of the ivy which is covering the future garage. Although ivy on a building does look attractive, it\u2019s not very good for the brickwork. And this particular ivy has decided it likes the interior of the building as well, so it has to go. Chopping through the base should cause the majority of the vegetation to die off, at which time it should be easier to remove. I\u2019ll tackle the root system at a later date. <\/p>\n

At the same time, I prune the grapevines which are being smothered by the aforementioned ivy. It\u2019s probably a bit late in the year to prune grapevines, but too bad. <\/p>\n

With the day\u2019s labour complete, I lit the barbecue. But as soon as I put the meat on the grid, it started to rain. However, we\u2019re made of tougher stuff than that. LSS dashed indoors to fetch an umbrella, and I finished cooking our supper under the protective covering of a fetchingly-coloured purple ladies\u2019 umbrella. <\/p>\n

\"Barbecue<\/a><\/div>\n

“I’m coooooooking in the rain, just coooooooking in the rain…..”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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