In the morning, I wondered if my gardener would come as the grass was wet!
It needed to be mowed. He came. We discussed tasks.
He helped carry three fallen fence panels. I supplied the claw hammer. He pulled them apart. They are too far gone to be re-erected. The 7-year old larch panels were never installed properly!
I organised, he dug, we buried domestic compost collected which I'd put in the black poubelle since October. We raked it to pull back the soil to make it more level at each end. I like to think 20C temperature will rot down the turned over, dug in weeds and grass.
I should have kept him longer than an hour and a quarter.
I don't think he can come every Tuesday!
As he departed I saw my Parisian neighbour staying at a distance across the road. Strange, I thought! I knew we had to keep one metre distance but this has now been extended to up to 3 metres! We chatted ... he explained he had left Paris before midday, as in a Parisian apartment with no school there is no garden for 2 teenage boys! Work was cancelled too! They could do more here!
At the same time I opened my post box,,, it contained an example of the ATTESTATION DÉPLACEMENT DÉROGATOIRE.
I must fill in the form for each departure from my property and land. I must indicate one of the five reasons to be out and about. I have decided to stay put and be in self isolation!
The Light Dawns ... in earnest, I begin to be more and more on the internet to follow UK and French coronavirus 19 regulations and restrictions.
I am well used to social and information isolation over the last 15 years of Life in France.
This will be a similar but different challenge.
I feel equipped to cope.
I organised, he dug, we buried domestic compost collected which I'd put in the black poubelle since October. We raked it to pull back the soil to make it more level at each end. I like to think 20C temperature will rot down the turned over, dug in weeds and grass.
I should have kept him longer than an hour and a quarter.
I don't think he can come every Tuesday!
As he departed I saw my Parisian neighbour staying at a distance across the road. Strange, I thought! I knew we had to keep one metre distance but this has now been extended to up to 3 metres! We chatted ... he explained he had left Paris before midday, as in a Parisian apartment with no school there is no garden for 2 teenage boys! Work was cancelled too! They could do more here!
At the same time I opened my post box,,, it contained an example of the ATTESTATION DÉPLACEMENT DÉROGATOIRE.
I must fill in the form for each departure from my property and land. I must indicate one of the five reasons to be out and about. I have decided to stay put and be in self isolation!
The Light Dawns ... in earnest, I begin to be more and more on the internet to follow UK and French coronavirus 19 regulations and restrictions.
I am well used to social and information isolation over the last 15 years of Life in France.
This will be a similar but different challenge.
I feel equipped to cope.
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