I was going to call this post 'A busy time of year', but I thought that would be an understatement, and anyway, I am almost always busy.
As a working teacher we are fast approaching the report deadlines so much marking and correcting, filling in forms and so on. I am also happy to be taking a group of students to the theatre to see a traditional (or maybe not as it is in France!) pantomime next week, it has been interesting trying to organise, as some teachers think it is great to take students out of the school environment especially in such an impoverished area where some have never set foot inside a theatre, whereas others think it is a waste of time and should not be allowed. I think it is obvious where I stand. Outside the school :)
http://www.letheatredanslesvignes.fr/#/Les_rendez-vous/Les_spectacles
The garden is being prepared for winter, in my spare time I am preparing beds and sowing winter crops to feed my family next spring hopefully - and not the (stupid/annoying/beautiful/ethereal/fantastic - delete as appropriate) peacocks or my naughty chickens which keep escaping from their admittedly temporary and bodge job fencing. Garlic, onions, lettuce, peas, broad beans. For the moment.
The newly insulated house is definitely warmer than last winter. Phew.
The trees have been pre-ordered;
pommiers sur apples on M111 :
Gravenstein x 2
Belle de Boskoop x2
Pomme Raisin Rouge x1
Belles filles de salins x1
coquette x1
rainette de Brive x1
rainette d'amboulne x1
rainette doréé x2
cerisier sur merisier - blanchard x1 et noir de meched x1 - 2 kinds of cherries
2
amandiers almonds
je voudrais aussi commander des porte-greffe.
These are the rootstock for when I finally learn to graft (I have found a local guy and
franc de poiriers x 3 (pear)
M111 x 10
M106 x 5
myrobolan x3 (for plum and apricot)
amandier x3 (almond!)The almond is a local unnamed variety! I am quite excited by that!
I will, as already posted, buy some modern varieties too.
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