Poo collecting!

Well yesterday I was really lucky with the weather, it was gorgeous - unlike today - it is tipping it down! We arrived at my house at Nr La Gacilly where I have my Gites (www.farmhousegites.com), with 2 friends of ours Karen & Rick, they kindly said they would bring their trailor so we could collect lots of horsey poo from a neighbour of mine John up the road! there was also an ulterior motive as they wanted a lot for their veggie garden, well this poo after we had taken off the top layer was near enough pure compost underneath, it was absolutely crawling with worms, loads of them - was like the day of the triffids worms! now I hate worms they give me the creeps, and I was really worried as I was standing on the top of this massive pile whilst shovelling it into the trailor and sinking the same time, that it would get into my 'shorty' boots! Rick is a 'manure' expert and said he had never seen such wonderful poo! he is also a fishing enthusiast as well as is my Keithy, and said as they were wriggling so much they were ideal for fishing - he's going to nurture some out for his next fishing trip! - OK don't tell him but I might let Keithy search our poo, if he's a good boy, when it gets delivered later!




Poor Rick though he got 'stuck' in the field as the trailor was so heavily laden (greedy???) that he couldn't get up to the top of the field to freedom, he made some lovely skid marks!!! eventually I said I will get some help, so beckoned my French neighbours over, and with a lot of talking (cursing) and shoving and lifting, the 7 of us got it to the top of the hill and back onto the road, must remember to get them a bottle of Ricard to share next time to say thank you! Luckily Rick had cut the hedge for me before this fiasco, and it is a long hedge I can tell you, he cut lots of the brambles down, as they are really getting out of hand, whilst Karen and I were madly digging the veggie patch ready for the poo, in this pic you can see Karen lending a hand at digging, but she was too shy to show her face, you wait Karen I will catch you unaware!


We also managed to do a spot of sunbathing whilst eating lunch, was so warm, then a bit of painting of the end gite inside and out. Right my next update on my gardening here will be when I re-visit on Thursday next - so watch this space again!