Swimming and O.F. birthday

(Sunday)
Swimming and O.F. birthday

We were invited to Gazavel today for tea. When we got there we found that they had organised a birthday party for Oncle François, he will be 82 later this week. (Mum had been told, but forgot!)

Therefore:


Numbers 25 & 26!
(Between 10... those with keen eyes will count 12 glasses... The two children present were counted in the "glass laying out" but did not have any. The person filling the glasses just filled them all without counting!)
We had cakes an fruit and stuff with the bubbly.
After that, we went swimming, and I sneaked some Internet time!


A view from the pool!


This is where we used to swim. The "grand bassin" is about shoulder depth, about 30m long, was filled with continuously flowing fresh water at about 17-19'C and was filled with goldfish ... descendants of some fish which my aunts (when girls) once won at a fair, and my grandfather released into the water.
This pond was cleaned every year, and the fish rescued into tin baths!
Sadly, the trees cracked the walls and it has leaked ever since, and has not been used for perhaps 15-20 years!


This is a side view of my uncle's house. I used to spend every August here when my grandparents were still living there.


View from the front... The sun was just setting, so the lighting is not so good.
There used to be about 6 trees in this courtyard, but they gradually died and had to be cut down when my uncle took over... You now get a much better view of the chateau. :-))
We used to sleep on the top floor, under the roof, so you could hear the rain on it... and sometimes feel the rain through it!
There is a railway track about 100m away, and the vibrations were not always good for the tiles! (so they sometimes moved)