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.
Read moreMonday 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
Read moreMonday Got rather waylaid with work in the morning so didn’t get a chance to call Anah to book the meeting in for Wednesday before they broke for lunch. Since the office is only round the corner by the station the easiest thing is to drop round as soon as they are back at 2pm. The receptionist was super lovely. All the appointments were booked so she rang the head
Read moreMonday 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
Read moreThursday 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
Read moreSaturday The day that we have been waiting for since long before the house officially became ours finally came. It was our first day on the slopes at Superbagneres! Unfortunately this also meant yet another early start to the day, it was almost dark still. I tried my very best to be as nice as possible but it doesn’t come naturally first thing, although I consoled myself with thinking that
Read moreFriday It’s New Years Eve, we had a bit of a lie in. A late night chat to Lee and Vicky had kept me up rather later than planned (again). We are however due to go and meet Jonny and Cressida later on so time to do a few bits and pieces around the house before we go. Matt however was up a little earlier than me and made some
Read moreMonday While I’m incredibly grateful to have a fantastic family to have spent time with, and the kindness of Peter to put us up during our isolation, we are very excited to finally be going home. It was a crack of dawn start, well actually well before – super dark out as we were up at 5am! Last bits and pieces packed and we were ready to go. Of course
Read moreMonday Matt arrived back about 8:30 so I got up to let him in and then went back to bed for half an hour. At 11:00 he got a message to say that his PCR test at Heathrow was positive. I had some King’s PCR tests to hand we were planning to use for the Fit to Fly return to France on Wednesday so we immediately both took one. Since
Read moreSunday It’s been a while since we really took a break to do something fun, so this week I’m heading to Abu Dhabi for the final Formula 1 race of the year. My friend Brandon has managed to use all his points-hacking skills to score us a bunch of upgrades and fun things to do, mostly on airline, hotel and credit card points. First stop is a fairly average airport
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