Early start again this morning as we have a planned power cut from 8:45-12, so taking advantage of the fact that we can can’t do any work. We have a long list of places to go and visit over in Pau (about an hour and 15 north west of here). Obviously we weren’t actually up at 7 but Matt was up at 7:45 and made me tea to lure me

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Brutal wake up call. The fuel delivery for the boiler was due between 7am and 12. The French phone rang at about 8:20. Not a good time of day for me but I managed the standard ‘Oui, d’accord, j’arrive’ (yes, ok, I’m coming) – if I can convince Matt to answer the French phone I recommend that he just uses this and puts the phone down. If it’s more complicated

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Busy day with work today. This afternoon however we have the pellet boiler guy coming from St Gaudens to scope it out and see whether it is an option. It’s not our first choice but the chance of getting a professional of any sort over the threshold is appealing. For a house of this size we’ll need a fairly big one which means we’ll use a lot of pellets. We’ve

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