Henri is Italian and always wears a big smile. I walk past his plot on the way to mine and find myself smiling even before I reach it when I see his 50 year old bike propped up against the shed. After a lovely chat last week while picking his gooseberries and blackcurrants I commented to Henri that if my plot was next to his I’d never get anything done; “we’d spend too much time chatting’’. He smiled and replied ‘’talking’s good. We’re not here for very long, life is short … I don’t know why people can’t be happy. Be happy, live long’’.
Nip it in the bud 
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What a bucolic lifestyle you lead! Be happy. Live long. So true and so poetic in its simplicity!
and an uneducated one it would seem (i’ve never heard that word before!). I like it; ‘rustic, pastoral, suggesting an idyllic rural life’
That is a lovely story! Your allotment site sounds so friendly
[…] were delighted to see our friend Henri at the plot on Saturday. He’s a familiar figure during harvest time when he leaves the plot […]
[…] were delighted to see our friend Henri at the plot on Saturday. He’s a familiar figure during harvest time when he leaves the plot […]