South Brittany Holiday Cottage

Christmas greetings from South Brittany Holiday Cottage

Yesterday Hervey arrived to show us and help with the next stage in the cider making proccess. We had to empty the barrel and put the cider in to another smaller barrel we had and a few large plastic bowels and then empty the sludge/sediment from the barrel and wash it out. We then transfered the cider back in to the barrel. We have to leave it again now to carry on fermenting. I still have to keep topping up the barrel with water each day.

Last Friday My wife Helena was working at Muzzillac doing the Christmas market, which went on all day and evening. So I arranged to meet here there to give her a break and some company. So I left South Brittany Cottage around 3pm and met Helena at Muzzillac, the afternoon and evening went quite well and we arrived home around 9pm. On getting in I commented on our young cat Minnie not being around, which was unusual as she normally shows at the door when we get back after being out. We called and looked for here all night but she never showed up. The next morning I went out looking for her, expecting to find her lying by the side of a road after being hit by a car. I looked everywhere in the village, but I couldnt find her. When Helena returned from work we both went out looking again but we still couldnt find her. We carried on looking for the next 3 days asking neighbours if they had seen her and if they could look in their sheds in case she was locked in somewhere, but nothing, no sightings at all. So we thought that was the end of her and we wouldnt see her again and the pair of us were really upset as she was a lovely cat full of character. We was getting ready to go to bed last night, our fourth night without her when Helena noticed a pair of eyes looking in through the cat flap, and when she opened the door, as Minnie hasn't learnt to use the cat flap, she walked in. We couldn't believe it, she was back. We dont know where she could of been, she was looking well and healthy, but did go straight to the food dish and ate quite a lot. Maybe she was locked in somewhere?

I have been checking the barrel of apple juice every day and topping it up with water. I think next week I have to empty the juice from the barrel and clean the sediment out, but I'm not too sure, I have to wait until Herve arrives to see if my translation was correct.