Volunteering

We had a spectacular week at the end of May when 11 fit and energetic people from Canada, Germany and the UK came to La Maison Verte as volunteers. The group included an actor, a company director, a doctor, two professional decorators, a PhD student, an antique book archivist and a master gardener (what joy was mine!).



During the space of 6 short days, they decorated a bedroom, a bathroom and loo, and completely cleared and replanted our acre or so of garden, which included shovelling 6 tons of gravel around the paths in the lower garden (see picture below - fresh new path and brand new bed).

Sue did our cooking - and provided the calories deliciously that we lost doing our hard labour. It must be one of the best weeks I, personally, have had this year because it was huge fun, and the results at the end of each day were spectacular - I so often find I have slogged all day without much to show for it; many hands really do make light work. Looking forward to the next volunteer week in October.