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.


Monday, 10 November 2014

too much cake

It was my turn to make cakes for the patchwork afternoon tea break. So it was I spent all morning baking and carried my basket of still warm apple and cinnamon shortbread cakes off to Laguepie. Unfortunately I wasn't the only one.  It was not my  mistake as I had the "official" slip of paper and my name and the date clearly written but we ate the other woman's cakes as she had also supplied fizz for her birthday. And then they ate some of mine too - they do love their cakes these French. I brought half of them back and put some in the freezer and Trevor thinks it's his birthday because he's got cake too.





Preparations for tomorrow's remembrance service were keeping the army recruits busy this afternoon - even cleaning the mortar and stones of the wall beside the memorial. They were still at it four hours later when we left.










Maybe I should have given them cake.

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