The Wild Side of Life #9
The Unadventurous Traveller The Wild Side of Life We enjoyed our lives and carried on adapting to French living. Outside of school, work and doing up the various buildings, we enjoyed the vast open space that many houses in France afford people. I had a vegetable garden - my ‘Potager’ - which I really enjoyed tinkering about on, planting vegetables, sharing in the delights of growing produce with the children and Dale, and eating the delights there and then! Vegetable garden Fresh peas, beans, lettuce, radishes, carrots, potatoes, and even aubergines etc! The kids would help me by digging up the potatoes or carrots and it was such a pleasurable activity for me, to wind down after work. It was also another way to get me into the sunshine and was a great thing to teach the kids where vegetables really come from and how hard it is to grow certain things we just take for granted. I loved being able to give away some surplus produce to our neighbours, gite guests and of course plenty for