suzy

Umm - for 'not' read 'note' !!!

Hi gardengirl, I wondered if you'd got anything yet for your pot.  Having passed the bambouseraie for years (both in the car and on the train) and never visited it, I made a not of your 'wonderful day out' and we visited this year at the end of August.  Wow, what a wonderful place !  I loved the Dragon Garden and like you I am now looking for places to grow bamboo !!  Unfortunately we also had to make our annual visit to the Poterie at La Madeleine, where I ogle the pots and then keep my purse firmly in my pocket.  Should have bought one years ago when the exchange rate was OK !  Now a nice bamboo in one of those pots would be fab.  Oh well, I can dream ! Sue

Having threatened our (now) 27 and 29 year olds with suitcases being dumped on the lawn when we disappeared to France, they both miraculously left the nest within 3 months of one another !  That was last year, one of them flew as far as Australia but came back on a fleeting visit this summer.  I missed him dreadfully when he first went and have, like you, had to rely on Facebook, but that visit changed everything.  He'd only been back in the house 30 minutes when I realised how peaceful and tidy it had been for 12 months - no remains of sandwich making left on the kitchen worktop, no tubes of toothpaste squeezed from halfway down, all my husbands socks still in his drawer, but sadly no feet thrust onto my lap for masssaging after a long day at work (only a mother would do that surely ??).  He's back in Oz now and although it was fab to see him, it was even fabber to wave goodbye again, particularly knowing he'll be there to visit as often as we can afford get there !!!

As you are in 30 (though obviously I don't know where) perhaps wait until you get there and visit the Bambouseraie near Anduze ?

I think that was Mad Cow disease, to see how many people in the country may be carrying it unknowingly