The comforts of home

We had a really marvellous hot, sunny day today so it wasn’t one to be wasted. It was still a bit too windy to think about flying – that’s for later this coming week – but a perfect day to do a bit more to my little encampment-cum-hospitality area outside my caravan.

The large table that I had outside my old house at Plazac was already in one of the two ‘tonnelles’ but the chairs that go with it were still in my ‘abri’ after I’d moved them from my old neighbour, Chantal’s, garden a few weeks ago. So today was a good time to dig those out.

The old cane table and chairs set that I brought with me from England ten years ago now was in the other ‘tonnelle’ but it is only a part of a complete conservatory (‘verandah’) set that also comprised a 2-seater settee and two single armchairs. I’d moved them into the ‘grenier’ (roofspace) of my old house several years ago and placed them under a cover in the barn at Malbec next to my aircraft when I moved out, so today was a good day to bring those over as well, especially as they’d need hosing down to get them clean enough to use again and the sun would make short work of drying them off.

But first I wanted to do one more thing, which was to slightly increase the size of the open area between my caravan and the ‘tonnelles’. I’ve found it to be a bit too cramped to be able to sit at the small round table and still have space to move past and around it, but once I’d done that it was time to bring the wooden furniture over from Malbec and get it cleaned up and installed in the second ‘tonnelle’.

It wasn’t half as dirty as I expected to be and even the seat base and back cushions, which I’d packed in plastic bin bags, were dust-free and clean enough to use straight away. Here are some pics that I took after I’d finished the job off.

Now the original ‘tonnelle’ after I’d moved it slightly further away from my caravan and dug the chairs out of my ‘abri’ that go with the long table.

I was really happy with the results of my day’s work and that’s another job (several actually) crossed off my to-do list. I shall check first thing tomorrow to see how things look for flying but first I’m looking forward to an early night and a good night’s sleep after today’s efforts 😉