All roads lead from Rome

Our very own Great Escape today, with a drive east to walk what used to be one of our favourite parts of the Voie Romaine. Beautiful day, and I persuaded CarbBoy to join us, but sadly they have tarmacked the road since we were last here, which takes away all the scurrying lizards and ants (and is harder on the knees and ankles than the old track!

Regardless it was wonderful to be out and to have a view longer than the bottom of the garden - to stretch the eyes. Lunch was bbq prawns and salad, and the afternoon saw us opening our first lime from the tree to grace a rather lovely jug of afternoon Cosmos.

Brown hen seems to be trying to reclaim me as her human, since grey hen clearly owns MrB. So she sat on my knee for a while in case I had any crisps for her (I didn’t). I know as soon as TallGirl comes home I’ll be dumped, but I’ll take the cupboard love while it lasts.

Now we’re watching the chess series that everyone’s been raving about. Tomorrow some tricky negotiations on a new business thing that I thought would be more straightforward. Happy to negotiate this stuff all day long for clients, but personal is harder.