Yes, I know, it's a bit yee oldie, that title, but well, time passes, I'm a year older and we are simply getting older, thus we garden ! The positive thing is that it means we have little left to do in the house !!! And with the current economic climate, creative, cheap and productive hobbies are in, and since our aging doesn't prevent us from being trendy, well, we have planted, weeded, dug and pampered our wee garden.
Voici donc nos futures tomates, notre fraisier et l'une de nos prolifiques salades ...Here are our future tomatoes, our one strawberry plant and one of our ever-growing lettuce ...

Pour les amatrices de Desperate Housewives, voici mon jardinier ... OK, c'est pas le genre latino-hot-hot, mais quand même, il est pas mal, et il est efficace, surtout !
For fans of Desperate Housewives, here is the gardener ... OK, we're not talking latino bomba, but still, he's not bad, and he is very efficient !
Et je ne résiste pas au plaisir de vous montrer un des superbes bouquets que j'ai reçu, de mes élèves -le second, encore plus joli, de ma maman ! Le tout livré au boulot, ce qui me donne maintenant une sacré réputation auprès des secrétaires, mais bon ...
And I can't resist showing you one of the wonderful bunches of flowers which I received from my students, the second being even nicer and from mum ! They were delivered at work, which has given me a bit of a reputation with the secretaries, but well worth it ...
Et pour finir, une nouvelle qui rend nos canards en plastique extatiques : nous sommes enfin connectés directement à la canalisation principale de la rue pour l'eau ! Il va donc être désormais possible de faire couler un bain en moins de 45min, et de prendre une douche en étant certain de ne pas se trouver à court d'eau à mi-parcours. Ce qui signifie, concrètement, que si mon Robin se bouge un peu, on devrait ... tenez-vous bien, c'est un scoop ... on devrait avoir fini l'intérieur de la maison dans peut-être un mois au plus ! Tout fini ! Sol partout, finitions, la totale !!! Incroyable, mais plausible, vraiment !
And to conclude, a piece of news which gets our plastic ducks in an extatic transe: we are finally directly connected to the water mains ! It will therefore now be possible to run a bath in less than 45min and to step into the shower with the certainty that we'll have water through it all. Which technically means that if my Robin gets his act together, we may, now hold on for this one, we may well have a finished interior in something like a month ! Fully finished ! Floored everywhere, finishings, everything !!! Unbelievable, yet truly plausible !

