Well, the jobs have started trickling in.

It's only Wednesday and I've already visited 3 clients, travelling as far as Gael on Monday and Cruguel yesterday.

In order to be able to visit clients without having to ask the Girlie to drive me, I am in the process of getting my car (the Green Beastie), back on the road. Two visits to the insurance office and it's nearly there. Perhaps third time lucky?

Being serious for a moment, when I was ill I had a nasty habit of falling asleep at the wheel - this didn't bother me so much (we all know that... "The Sleep Apnea sufferer died happily in his sleep; his three passengers died screaming!"), but I think it may have scared a pedestrian or two!

To celebrate the start of the new business, the Girlie, Joshy and I went off to a vide grenier on Sunday.

Well, we left for a vide grenier about 20 minutes away and after a tour of much of north west France, we did actually arrive at a vide grenier - I even think that it might have been the one we had initially intended to go to!

I do have to say that navigation isn't really my forté - and I think that the Girlie may have caught that slight failing from me as well!

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Having finally arrived, we found that the vide grenier was smaller than we expected.

I bought a little plastic box (having viscously beaten the price down from 3€ to 1€ - I'm not scared of no eight year old!), which I shall use for....... well, putting things in!

I did fancy Mr Fox, as well!

But, good sense prevailed (helped along by an empty wallet), and I decided to leave Mr Fox for another taste challenged visitor!

Meanwhile, the Girlie has been busy in the kitchen.

She has turned these home grown peaches into...Peach Jam. And very nice it is too!

She also made an excellent tomato soup from our home grown tomatoes and basil.

We've still got onions and shallots in the barn (as well as strings of the aforementioned throughout the house) and bags and bags of runner beans in the freezer.

I was cleaning out my camera (as one does), when I found some photos that were taken when my sister and her brood were over here on holiday.

My niece (whom I'm reliably informed is called Martha, even though I kept calling her Ru which is silly because everyone knows that Ru is Martha's 18 year old sister and looks nothing like her which is probably lucky for Ru as Martha looks exactly like my Granny, having inherited the Cornish Pascoe genes - not sure if that's a good thing or not?) came to stay with us for a few days.

And I am sorry for that extraordinarily long sentence - I just wanted to see if you could read it all in one go!

Actually, we kidnapped her and didn't want to give her back.

Even though she can talk for England, Martha (I think that's her name), is almost human for an 11 year old. That must be my influence on her - I've always thought of myself as a wise old uncle!

She does have another attractive talent - she makes the most wonderful pizza's (once again - her culinary talents must come from her uncle!)

Thus, we really didn't want to give her back.

Here she is preparing the table for tea - I'm sure we'll be allowed to sit down sometime (my niece, whatever her name is, is a little bit bossy.)

Eventually, the time came for us to deliver my pizza cooking niece back to her mother. I think that she would have stayed with us if only I could have remembered her name - or, at least, stopped calling her "wassername" or "wassercalled"!

But, then again, my Cornish granny (whom my niece does seem to take after in many ways), used to call everyone "wassername" or "wassercalled"!

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A gallery of photos - whatever next?

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The vide grenier turned out to be where it was supposed to be.	And not in any of the other places that we visited on route!	Every vide grenier has got to have an old man with a big belly and wearing a cap - I think it's the law in France - no, really!	A good looking fox and two naked Barbie dolls - all too much for me on a Sunday morning!
The Girlies beetroot (home grown you know)!	Pizza making niece being strangled by Girlie.	Pizza making niece - whatever her name is?	You know - "wassername" or "wassercalled"!
Jars of the Girlie's beetroot - it did turn both our wee and poo red - just thought I'd share that!	A bossy minx laying the table!	Our peaches, now in jars or in my tummy!

All the best....

Keith

P.S. It's not like me to mention Football anymore but, because of the international friendly at the weekend, no Premier League matches were played. Thus, Spurs are still second from top of the premier league, having won all four matches so far! This is their best start since 1960/61 - the year when they won the double! I'm so excited, I could almost publicly skip!

P.P.S. Whoops - I've just been reminded that I've got a god daughter called Sofia-Josephine! And, I've just remembered that that it's her birthday! Or, at least it was..... sometime during August - by general consensus, I probaly am the Worst Godfather (or uncle) in the World!

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