Month: February 2022

The long road home

Saturday You cannot be serious! Who knew that there was a 6am?! Bless her though, mum got up to say goodbye. I appreciated the support, and that Matt was driving, I’m not sure that I should be driving at that time in the morning, my eyes are hardly open. It’s so dark out that the first pictures didn’t work at all! Sun had risen by the time we reached Folkstone.

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Driving home for Christmas (presents)

Monday Busy day. Work, ANAH and preparations. Work calls. Then M. Julien came round, he’s very nice and clearly when he arrived the penny suddenly dropped. He’d been wondering why the quote for pellet boiler was so large and the spec on the alternative quote was for two air source heat pumps, it had seemed rather over specced until he saw the sheer volume of the house. He was grateful

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Pear-ly making progress

Monday Busy day at work so nothing much happened on the house today. Matt did spend some time this morning putting our details on what seems to be the equivalent of ‘Find a trade’ however, which seems to have been oddly successful as we have already had a couple of responses – by phone rather than email of course, that’s the French way. I do rather wish that he’d told

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Soldes

Thursday Busy day of work so little time to do much else but definitely very cold outside, I believe that it was about -12 last night. Not long before it got dark however Matt did manage to mix up some plasster and make a start on the taping and joining for the ensuite. I measured up the gap for the piece next to the fireplace as this will need to

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