Sunshine and Chocolate

The sun is out, the sky is blue and I have lots of chocolate to eat, ohhh yummy! It is of course Easter and the French with their usual mastery of holidays have declared today a "fermature exceptionelle" which means that it isn't an official holiday but what the hell it is Easter and we did work yesterday, we are not working Monday as it's an official holiday so we need a long weekend! Ahhh, what a way to live eh? I really am pleased that we escaped the rat race of England to come here. After nearly three years we have no desire whatsoever to return to blighty. The mayor even stops his car to talk to us now when he see's us. Maybe he only wants to see how the crazy English are getting on with rebuilding a house that they would find habitable in the first place or as is more usual we end up talking about the weather and the state of his cows and the new calves. Lynda thinks the calves are adorable and wants to bring some of them home until I tell her that in perhaps 18 months they are destined for the table! Oh horror in her eyes, she just wants them to grow up and live a full life and then go to cow heaven if they have such a thing. Not sure that she is cut out to be a smallholder sending her animals to the abbatoir and then getting the meat back and eating daisy or whatever she named them. I think it better to eat them as you know that they were well cared for by you and had a happy life as best as you could make it for them. Much better than some supermarket meat but that is a whole different issue.

Off to make myself sick eating all my chocolate bunnies and eggs..........