Thursday Pretty early start this morning, which was a bit of a waste of time as the other person didn’t turn up. Gave me an early start on the day though to make some more time to spend outside. No bad thing either as it was far too nice to be head down working all day. I picked up my secateurs to take a brief sojourn into the garden and
Read moreMonday First thing and just as I am getting up there’s a slightly panicked shout from Matt for me to come downstairs. There’s a lady at the door, apparently asking what she wanted was a very stupid idea, of course he has no idea ‘it’s just a lady speaking French very quickly’. It’s the lady from the department who has come over to set up the radon reader. It’s part
Read moreFriday Meeting, meetings and then the architects arrived. They were a nice couple of ladies, Leila’s husband is English so she’s pretty fluent. We showed them round, had a chat about our plans for the house and showed them the plans we’d drawn up. What we really need to spend some time on is working out the budget but it’s a bit of a catch 22 as it’s hard to
Read moreMonday I think I may have done too much exercise last week that required me to be bending over as my back was really aching today. Also generally feeling at bit under the weather. I’ve now got the reading materials through for my new job so after my obligatory conference calls I decided I would wrap up warm back in bed and read up. Matt’s done some work chasing the
Read moreSeems as though it might be the last nice day for a little while and Matt is keen to get going. I managed to refrain for another hour and relax – it is Sunday after all! When I do get downstairs, I find Matt ticking off one of the things on my ‘other list’ (the one full of those priorities which aren’t actually working on the house itself). Checking, servicing
Read moreWell that was a surprise. It seems that the sky has been raining wet sand… There are reports all over France (and indeed Spain and Austria) of waking up to a yellow sky. Apparently, it’s something called ‘Sirocco’. Sirocco occurs when a tropical, stationary air mass over the Sahara is found between a high pressure area vertically above the Tropic of Cancer line and a sudden area of strong depression
Read moreMonday Pretty slow day. Matt is super busy with work. I’ve done a few bits and pieces but things just aren’t falling into place hopefully work will go better tomorrow. Exciting delivery today though, Muma Camp bought us a wildlife camera as part of our Christmas presents. It’s going to take a while to get it set up and working in the right place but hopefully we will finally get
Read moreRegular Sunday morning. Matt is up before me, I lay in bed and caught up on some TV. But soon enough noon rocked around and he still hadn’t popped his head in to see ‘if i was thinking about getting up soon.’ He clearly hasn’t started on the holes in Room 4 for the gaines as I would certainly have heard him. Intrigue got the better of me and I
Read moreFriday Early start, not least because I got confused about time zones as the PS is now on the continent too – it’s what all us high flyers do these days – and wasn’t sure whether it we’d agreed UK or French time. Weather is miserable today, just wet and raining all day. Being France the post office was closed for over 3 hours for lunch and then I had
Read moreTrying to keep track of what we did on every day is sometimes difficult as these blogs are usually written a few days after things actually happened. Thankfully I do recall the kind chap at the garage reminding me that Wednesday (mercredi) comes before Thursday (jeudi) so it must have been today that we got up super early to get the car to the garage at 9am. [When he initially
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