Giles, his dog and the little tractor that could (but only just)....

Giles has this really cute tractor.  His dog always leads the way and his little tractor trucks on behind.  This is him coming by our place from the house below.  He's rubbing his tummy giving me the thumbs up from a frittata I made in exchange for his eggs.  Very cute.  

 

Giles and the Nudgicles...

Giles is a bit of an eccentric guy who is the caretaker of the château is a complete animal whisperer.  

His little dog follows him everywhere as do a couple of the cats. 

We know Nudge goes over to visit quite regularly. What we didn’t know until last night is that Giles takes off Nudge's collar when he’s visiting to give him a break from his bell, then pits it back on again before he comes home. How do we know this? Cause last night when Nudge was already a bit late, Giles popped over with a dozen eggs (he likes cake in the weekends and he knows I always bake a cake when he gives me eggs and as an aside he calls out "Natalie" when he comes over.  He knows how to say my name because it's very popular in France).  His dog was with him as usual but who had also followed him from the château and was sitting in the driveway (waiting but looking a little bit guilty)? Our little Nudge. Sans collar. Then Giles left with Nudge and the dog following him back to the bloody château!!

Nudge returned a couple of hours later (hungry, luckily Giles knows better than to feed him) with his tinker bell collar back on. It was so funny.  It's nice that Nudge has friends, but seriously little guy???

This week I baked a lemon cake and filled it with lemon curd and cherry compote.  A easy exchange for those gorgeous free range eggs.

Cake getting packed, I pop them on a piece of foil lined cardboard and label it "Giles" now, in case he's not there.  Andy leaves them on the letter box and texts him.  A couple of times the cheeky people who were staying in the chateau over summer nicked it.