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.


Friday, 29 November 2019

return of the country wife

I detest house work - luckily there is gardening and patchwork!

However I have always enjoyed making preserves, jams, chutneys and the like and here in the French countryside it's a must do activity.

In late summer the aisles of the supermarket and house'n'garden stores have mountains of jam jars, gradually replaced as winter gets nearer, by  preserving jars and special promotions on pork and duck products for making pâté and confit.  My only problem is I get carried away and keep making "just one more batch". Its fun to experiment with new mixes and properly sterilised will keep for a few years.

This year we have pork with ceps and armagnac, pork and duck with fig and duck with foie gras - gonna stop now!




Guess what's for lunch!


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