Friday, November 14

Choosing Colours

14th November
The Director has gone back to the UK where our house has become a production office. Over there the bedrooms are now editing suites and the living room is full of people writing scripts and arguing about contracts. I am going to (hide in France) stay here and prepare for next year’s filming. We need a studio to film things that have to be contained (like cockroaches) and slow things like butterflies emerging from cocoons. I’m currently trying to persuade builders to give me a quote to lay a concrete floor for the studio. The outside project is the 'film set garden’, I’ve started clearing a large overgrown piece of land where we will put a shed, fencing, plant flowers and make a vegetable patch. I’m a bit hampered by the all the rubbish the Landlord has dumped here, hacking back brambles I keep dinging into bedsprings and bits of rotten furniture.

For light relief I go and visit my new friend Florence. On Tuesday I took the fabulous chicory tart over to her place. Florence is expecting her second child in the spring. She has recently moved into a small village house that needs some work. We picnicked amid the rubble from a big hole that has just been knocked through the end wall. Turning our backs on the view of a suppurating septic tank in the middle of her garden we perused paint colour charts for the baby’s bedroom.

3 comments:

  1. Ah yes, the supturating septic tank that many a garden would look naked without.

    Ref your previous post, I must tell you Lulu that I have fallen under the spell of those oh so appropriately named devil slippers. To the extent that I now have two pairs. One for posh, the other for buidling work, wading through mud, that sort of thing.

    Give in, you know you want to.

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  2. BTW, though you may know this, they are charentaise, or perhaps that should be charentaises. I find written French rather challenging, and writing it more so.

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  3. Ernest - I didn't know the name of this bewitching footwear, before you know it I'll have tossed my flowery cowboy wellies aside. 'A pair for posh'!!!? - do you go to dinner dances in your Charentaises.

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