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.


Saturday, 9 January 2016

great timing


The snowdrops are very early this year.





I spotted a flash of white in at the roadside on my way home the other day and saw that the clump in my garden was open so I was keen to make use of any break in the rain to visit the woods behind Beaulieu abbey where the display is always a treat for the eyes. The forecast this week is dismal so when it brightened up as we eating lunch we decided to go for it.






Some years we have been a little too early, sometimes a bit late but this year we have caught them at their peak. A joy to behold.









Time to change the "altering cloth" on the kitchen wall too - the year moves on!

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