Quarante - Quarantine - 40 days of lockdown, and in theory that should be it, although the French government never said that it would be over today, but next Tuesday it should be, except... Those pesky daily new cases figures are not getting down to the 5,000 a day that would mean they feel they have this under control. I suspect a slight alleviation of restrictions on Tuesday next week, and then another lockdown about the 5th January. I'm not putting money on it though.
Today has been a day of little jobs, but that make things progress. This morning we cut more bits off the cherry tree. The next thing will be to get the main trunk down and then we will have to decide what to do with that bit of the garden, which has always been very sheltered due to the size of the tree.
I also designed the Christmas card, ready to take to the printers tomorrow, and wrote the Christmas round robin - yes, I know everyone sneers at them, but actually I like to know what is going on in people's lives, beyond the fact that they ARE alive, and do as you would be done by and all that! After lunch we visited the Boys in the Country for much needed cat cuddles and then to the One Acre Wood to secure some firewood. One of the delights of the wood, is that it is on a ridge of hills overlooking the Loir valley, and we have a splendid view for miles. It was looking particularly pleasing today.
It's about time to reassess how the orchid is coming on, and you can see that there are some interesting developments. The first three buds on the new flower stem would appear to be branches that will have flowers on, while the next couple are starting to look a lot like flower buds and slowly swelling. It is very odd, for days nothing seems to change, and then all of a sudden I notice something different.
If you want to compare, the first photo was on November 9th (Day 11) and the second on November 23rd (Day 25).
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