Weather, wedding and latest project

The dream continues.We have had a change of weather though with 2 amazing thunderstorms and some rain on the last couple of days. The plants are doing so well, everything is growing so quickly.I've never been so aware of crops growing you can almost see the cucumbers and courgettes growing as you watch them. We have so much to plant that John's had to make another raised bed .

 We loved the wedding.8 of us Brits got together and watched it. We then had lunch, visited the local brocante (large secondhand warehouse, lots of junk but always some little treasure to be found) John took our friends to visit the salon de traite (milking parlour) and we finished the day with English tea, scones, trifle etc., with Marie the farmers wife and the children.

We recently saw a garden swing set for E300 (best I can do for euros!) I then saw a second hand one for E85, but after some thought I decided we could make one for ourselves,after all we do have one or trees!! So I went into the woods found some little pines that weren't growing well,pushed them over carried them out of the woods, not that easy as they were about 25ft.long. 

I then went to tell my DIY specialist of my plans and we started straight away.As you might imagine it was quite difficult to prop the uprights up and we had one 'timber' moment and we both had to run out of the way as they fell.

Undaunted, we continued and it just grew and grew as we thought of more we could add, we now have 2 swings, a ladder, climbing net, deck and den.There will also be a slide, once we've decided what to make it with. With the rope, hooks and replacement drill bit it has cost us E40.

 Although we have 20 grandchildren we are only expecting 4 to visit this summer, Elliot and Harvey (2 & 3) are coming at the end of this month and Isaac and Jacob (9 & 11) in August, we hope they will spend many happy hours here.
We were welcomed into the St.Brieuc branch last week, John is Sunday School class president and I am teaching RS next Sunday.
On Thursday evening we went for a long walk and saw this cow waiting to give birth

I've been to see her 4 times since then and poor dear she's still waiting, I'll keep you updated.     

We hope you are all well, au revoir.