Back to the new normal

Home again, and back to quarantine.  I really thank Boris for that one!!  Its crazy times, I can honestly say I felt safer in France than I do in the UK,  rules are rules I'm guessing, but the damage it is doing to the tourist industry is unprecedented though. Peoples lives turned upside down by this virus, with no end in sight.  You can't blame people for wanting a bit of normality for a few days or weeks.  If everyone just stuck to the rules then we might get out of this quicker.  I'm sure we have broken some of the rules though, hard not too, but always we keep distance, wear a mask and wash our hands, the only shopping we do is for food, anything else is online. We have no desire to go to a shopping centre and trudge around the shops or even sit inside a pub, so not really much more you can do.

We had a busy time as usual, lots of guests and lots of hot weather.  Lots of fruit picking, lots of ironing, not too much gardening due to the heat.  Long days on your feet, so I'm glad that we only do it in small stretches.

We bought lots of goodies back from the Chateau gardens, figs, raspberries, tomatoes and courgettes.  The figs I have made into Confit of Figs, which when paired with goats cheese is amazing - figs, red wine, sugar, salt and rosemary sprigs

The raspberries will be eaten with ice cream.  The tomatoes roasted and the courgettes I expect with become fritters or 'meatballs' or added to a pasta sauce.

I'm hoping to get the shawl finished this week, I really didn't have time for more than a few rows over the last two weeks, plus the 4 pawed friends hindered my somewhat

I've managed to do all the washing I bought back, I've a bit of ironing, some repairs and some deadheading in the garden then its just sit around for the next few weeks until we are allowed out again.  I plan on sorting some yarn to patterns for some autumn projects and maybe make a few gifts for Christmas, which will soon be upon us again.  This has been such a crazy year.  We have been in shorts since the middle of February, and hopefully will be for a while longer.  The thought of jeans or trousers seems odd after so long.  I realise I still have to finish the last 10 days of our New Zealand trip here on the blog. Something else I can do I suppose.

I'll be back soon with a knitting update and maybe some of the soon to be knitting projects until then, take care xx