<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Back in France and trying to overcome a serious deterioration in my asthma due to some kind of respiratory tract inflammation - cheering myself up today making marmelade while builder Graham erects fences and installs gates for the benefit of our sheep and chickens.<br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hwBQsj_Q0PA/XMrPiPeStwI/AAAAAAAAOwk/4BXdeXWTwW8K-lP2BAJTHpRFPbgPPlXFwCLcBGAs/s1600/9A6DE6B8-DCA0-46AD-892C-2123418F1308.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hwBQsj_Q0PA/XMrPiPeStwI/AAAAAAAAOwk/4BXdeXWTwW8K-lP2BAJTHpRFPbgPPlXFwCLcBGAs/s320/9A6DE6B8-DCA0-46AD-892C-2123418F1308.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QDIE4WcHvcc/XMrP_LnVykI/AAAAAAAAOws/Rtc-aRWAACAoteWCeJKrzbRMboQL12GEACLcBGAs/s1600/1DB52E22-4B65-43F1-9C7B-2695815C7188.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QDIE4WcHvcc/XMrP_LnVykI/AAAAAAAAOws/Rtc-aRWAACAoteWCeJKrzbRMboQL12GEACLcBGAs/s320/1DB52E22-4B65-43F1-9C7B-2695815C7188.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I’ve got the bare basics of the France Passion shop in place, awaiting an improvement in the weather for people to start arriving. The two couples we had over Easter were happy to buy eggs from our very productive hens!</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q_3WwfVcD2c/XMrQgODu_zI/AAAAAAAAOw0/iGncKJilLlopGKb6eCqRHUAIliCbEOh4ACLcBGAs/s1600/DAD538CF-EECE-49D0-B45E-B82D2DADC363.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q_3WwfVcD2c/XMrQgODu_zI/AAAAAAAAOw0/iGncKJilLlopGKb6eCqRHUAIliCbEOh4ACLcBGAs/s320/DAD538CF-EECE-49D0-B45E-B82D2DADC363.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cats are all getting on well together! Oriel has decided he is Top Cat but in a rather understated way. Louis has accepted this, and Mao Mao and MKG don’t care!</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dwoiGT4Bs7g/XMrRDULC0SI/AAAAAAAAOxA/L-_lpyltPEI8wcn48XPTQp7U8fd9MjG1QCLcBGAs/s1600/A0331F67-FF82-47D2-AC02-7FBAD51A2D6E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dwoiGT4Bs7g/XMrRDULC0SI/AAAAAAAAOxA/L-_lpyltPEI8wcn48XPTQp7U8fd9MjG1QCLcBGAs/s320/A0331F67-FF82-47D2-AC02-7FBAD51A2D6E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>