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, 24 August 2015

In the company of cheerful ladies

(borrowing the title of the Alexander McCall Smith book I'm reading)





Monday afternoon is patchwork time but the club does not meet during July and August. A few of us still meet up in one another's houses to chat and sew - It's a great time for practising my French conversation skills.

This afternoon I was hostess - a small number came as lots of people are away or doing Granny duties - but it was a lovely afternoon anyway.






The "gouter" ( ie cake break) is always very important to the French ladies . Today I introduced them to a west country speciality - scones with cream and strawberry jam - they went down very well thank goodness. ( I even got asked for the recipe)

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