I know this entry is supposed to be a recap of the last week but I have to lead with the exciting news that Dave and Amy are due to become parents this week. The official date is the 22nd, although apparently Amy feels it isn’t ready yet, so we’ll soon see if she’s right or not. She’s fine and quite relaxed, just a bit fed up with carrying 7lbs of baby around. Dave on the other hand is apparently stressed enough for the both of them. Anyway, collective finger crossing for Thursday, or whichever day the baby chooses for its birthday.
Right, back to the recap. Matt’s recovering steadily, but slowly and he still has quite a bit of pain if he stretches, coughs or sneezes – which are hard things to avoid doing at times. It’s hopefully just part of the healing process but he sees the doc in 10 days so will talk it over with him then. The nurse came for the last time today and all his stitches are out and the wounds are healing nicely.
We’ve mainly been working this last week. After a big push, we finished and put live our escort website, Welsh Bunnies. I am really pleased with how the design came out, and the way it functions is all quite slick too. Due to its nature, it’s obviously not a site we’re comfortable promoting. Still, it was an excellent project from a financial perspective, so that’s a bonus. (Pls only visit the site if you don’t mind seeing some explicit images: Welsh Bunnies).
Another site on the go is for the local brewery. After a good meeting with her the other week, it felt like we were finally about to finish it, but she’s inexplicably gone silent again. In a way it’s good as there’s something broken on the site that is giving us a headache, so at least we have time to look into that. Either way, they’re getting a bill from us at the end of the month as this one’s been in the works since January now and it’s getting silly.
That aside, there’s not been much happening. We’ve good news on the seedlings: the ones we planted in the veggie plot have taken to their new home with gusto and are growing at a normal pace at last. They’re unlikely to get that big in the short time remaining, but between those and the 7 new seedlings, all of which are doing well, we should be OK.
It’s been largely cloudy and cool of late but tomorrow, summer is allegedly finally going to arrive, and with a bang too. I certainly hope so: the ground feels like it can’t handle any more rain and you virtually sink if you try and walk on the veggie plot. It might also mean the cats sleeping somewhere other than where my legs should be all night long.
After a quiet Friday in, our week-end got going on Saturday when we had Benoit, Virginie and Sam over for dinner. The meal was a french-chinese fusion: crispy duck pancake rolls made using conift de canard. Along with that was home made hoisin sauce and special fried rice. We had a good number of drinks and at some point, got invited to theirs for aperos the following evening.
Surprisingly for an evening with B&V, it was over by midnight. All three of them were shattered as they have been working hard at the weekends on Eva’s ‘Squat’ as they call it. It’s an outbuilding at the end of their garden that has been their daughter Eva’s pad for years. B&V decided they’d redo the ground-floor bathroom and give it a general refreshen up ahead of Eva’s imminent return from her travels. We saw their handiwork the following evening and they’ve done a stellar job.
We had our final band practice on sunday – the “gig” is this saturday – and it went fairly well all told. We’re going to play at Marie and Christian’s for his birthday in front of a very small crowd, including Manu & Mathilde. After Christian left, we had a quick chat with my parents and then headed over to B&Vs. They were still hard at work but broke off when arrived for drinks on their terrace. Predictably, aperitifs turned into staying for dinner (filet mignon of porc), and before we knew it, it was 1am. Despite that, we’ve managed a full day’s work today. And this blog post was is the last chore on my list, so I am signing off now!