Because I can't work Fridays, as they are devoted to the needs of the Azay One, Saturdays are the new Sundays, and I toil in the vegetable patches on a Sunday morning and in front of a computer on a Sunday afternoon - it sort of makes sense. Anyway, with the patchy weather we have at the moment, plus we used up the last bottle of tender winning celebration fizz, we decided it was time to go south of the river (la Loire) and stock up again. We haven't been down there since before Christmas 2019!. I put the laundry out, just to draw in clouds and rain (it worked - 2.5mm while we were out), and then we jaunted down to Ackermans at St Hilaire-St Florent, just by Saumur. The buildings are rather magnificent and they are the front for miles of tunnels into the rock where millions of bottles of rather good fizz are stashed.
We invested in 6 bottles each of Cuvée Privé Blanc and Rosé - hopefully they will last the year, but hopefully not all of them assuming we have things to celebrate! We also got a worryingly cheap 10 litre wine box of red. We may survive.
On the way home, we stopped in on the cats at The Shack and fed them and admired the growth on the potatoes above ground.
In the garden at home, we have the next colour irises coming out - a nice pale lilac colour. We don't have many and they get frightfully abused, but they are pretty.
And a final note of "isn't nature wonderful?" if you like that sort of thing. I was wandering back down the garden last night having locked up the chickens, and spotted the unmistakable yellow blob that is a spider nest erupting with lots of little spiders. By this morning they were gone, dispersed naturally or eaten by the wildlife that lives in the garden. For the squeamish, the photo is deliberately out of focus!!
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