Aici sèn pla

This blog started as a daily record to mark our fifth year at Segala. Daily it did not turn out to be but after the year I have decided to continue as an occasional diary - after all I do still like it here or "aici sen pla".


Its our fifth year living at Segala. I have decided to try to mark this year with a daily post ( some days it will be just a photo) of our life over the year. I have trawled my brain for witty titles without success then I remembered the slogan on the T shirts at the fête in Espinas in the summer.


A friend translated it from the occitan for us. It seems to mean something along the lines of I like it here. Very apt for us, "I like it here " is a refrain we use to each other at least daily so that's the plan - Aici sén pla - a year of daily musings from a contented retired expat who thinks herself damned lucky every single day.


Sunday, 16 November 2014

spot the difference



Found it yet?


The Laguepie starpatch ladies call it a "chameau" when they have pieced a patch wrongly. Its amazing how you can miss them as you go along. Once seen of course it is obvious.

So when is the most annoying time to discover a "chameau" - answer when the top is glued and tacked to the wadding and backing!

Its all fixed now and I can get back to drawing  the quilting design. I'm going to use this to practice quilting before I get started on a big quilt.

I had dressed in scruffy clothes in preparation for a day in the garden tackling the winterising of the pool, a horrible job that has to done sometime but there is already too much wet about! Its a really damp and drizzly day outside, matched inside  by the kitchen being full of steam because of the puddings. So it looks like the pool will have to wait and I can console myself with some sewing ( sounds good to me)






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