Les bicyclettes de Marsilly

First ride of summer

The garage door creaked opened and out came the bikes for our inaugural summer ride. Our mission was to locate an advertised specialist beer shop in Lagord. It is always goo. to have a mission. The route was a straight forward combination of cycle tracks and roads out of Nantilly, skirting Neuilly and tracking round the edge of Lagord to the Centre Commercial known as Le Fief Rose.
The shp was a bit disappointing but a few shops away was a very handsome looking wine shop. We bought a Picpoul de Pinent and a Bourgogne Aligote for which we hold high hopes of being adopted as the house white for the holiday.
We made a slight diversion on the return to Le Batleur in Neuilly where we stopped for a just about passable lunch. The round trip  was just under 12 miles and we spent a comfortable hour and forty-one minutes riding, not including the stop for lunch, so not Tour de France pace.

Les Gnomes de Marsilly

The first thing to be noticed in the backyard was the overgrown vines, swamping the fuchsia bushes - all a bit of a mess really. The second thing to notice, or rather not notice, was that there was no sign of the gnomes. Cutting back the vines and tidying up the fuchsias revealed that they had clearly gone to ground in May under the vines, and lived a "sheltered" life. let's hope the are not in the mood for rebellion.