Busy, busy, busy...

We opened the museum on 15th April.

Preparations to open kept us very busy, and we are still working from morning until night. There is so much to do! Now the museum is open, and we are starting to understand the rhythm's of the place.

Highlights of the past few weeks have been:-

• Collecting wood ants from the forest for the ant-heap in the museum.
• Seeing a red squirel - on the window-sill!
• Finding a dragonfly nymph in the pond. Dragonflies spend the majority of their lives as nymphs.
• Feeding the praying mantis
  
• Selling our first honey
  
• Finishing our two guest rooms
• Finishing our own bedroom and bathroom. We are still 'camping' though; we need a wardrobe before we can move in.
  

The weather has improved, and spring is arriving. I heard a cuckoo this morning. Spring here seems to come a little later than Limoges - just an hour away. It may be the altitude (600m), or maybe the variety of deciduous trees here (oak, chestnut and beech I think). The trees still have a redish tinge from the buds rather than the vibrant green when the buds start to open.