Highlights of the past 24 hours include a Czech style braai / BBQ which consists of a sitting around a fire in the garden and 'roasting' fat juicy sausages on long thin pointed sticks. These were devoured with Czech mustard, raw garlic (!) blue cheese and cucumbers on bread. Pungent but delicious when enjoyed with a glass or 3 of red wine around the fire.
Today after an early start (Raph and I doing some schoolwork before the others woke up) we had a chilled day at the mill, sitting around in the sun reading, swimming, walking into the village (I took the baby, Gabriel, for his sleep-walk in the pram). There was a sad lost hour spent hunting for my retainer believe it or not but at least Franny found it so catastrophe & trip to the local dentist were avoided.
I played 1-2-3 block myself with Raph and Daniel, reliving my childhood by teaching them the "1 potato 2 potato" method of deciding who was on.
Lunch, made by 'Baba' (Franny's gran) was a traditional dish of ravioli-type pastries made from potato flour and stuffed with a think jam, deepfried and served sprinkled with toasted crumbs. Raph wasn't all that mad about it but I enjoyed it.
Raph, Daniel, Franny and I just came back from a beautiful walk to the 'source' - where the family gets their drinking water - ice cold fresh water gushing from the ground via a handy pipe. Delicious and ice cold.
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