I can’t wait to see what it looks like in spring and summer but in the meantime here’s a quick walk around the garden. It’s going to be a lot of work to maintain this. Apparently, I will also need to protect the vegetable garden and orchard [when we get to that stage] as deer and stags regularly come into the garden in the evening. I haven’t seen any yet
Read moreWoken up at the crack of dawn by calls from French accounting and insurance companies. Too early in the day to be able to deal with this so had to politely ask them to call back as I had a meeting (with my pillow for another hour). Calls with London starting pretty early today (9am UK time – I do love being an hour ahead!) Good weekly catch up too
Read moreYet another morning that starts with an Amazon delivery. Beat him to the punch today as at the door before he even rang me [I heard his van door]. Today’s treats – wire strippers (so that I can fit a french plug to the wallpaper stripper) and Matt’s office chair. Early meeting to prep for our afternoon branding workshop. Emails and work. Now that we know how awesome my plumbing
Read moreWednesday and I have decided to take the day off. Ok, I did a few work emails and responded to a few bits and pieces but it was mostly a day off. I was trying to have a good lie in but swore I heard car/van door close. Couldn’t see anything so back to bed. Time to treat myself to a bit of BBC’s excellent lunchtime drama – Doctors! 🙂
Read moreAmazon! Glad I have saved his number so I know who it is, he also now just says ‘la poste’ so it’s not exactly difficult but it works. Looks as though our new kitchen tap has arrived. Short nap and a day off, time to focus on the house. Oh, maybe not, few emails I need to deal with first. And, before you know it, it’s lunchtime. First job of
Read moreHappy Birthday Matt! Thanks for the birthday card(s) Jeff and Vivian; not just the one that arrived in France after Matt left but also one in London – boy you guys are good and put the rest of us to shame! Probably not the best birthday for Matt ever, being stuck in quarantine and over 1,000km from me. We will celebrate properly once he is back. For now I have
Read moreSunday vibes were rather ruined this morning by an alarm going off downstairs. I’m pretty sure I managed to wrap it into my dreams for a good half hour before I realised it was coming from the real world. Suspected that it might be the new CO2 alarm that I opened yesterday but it wasn’t that. As soon as I opened the door to the cellar it stopped. No smoke
Read moreWoken up by the French phone ringing but couldn’t find it in time and no message left, had a check and wasn’t Amazon, so guess it was just a random sales call. Up late today as no Matt poking his head in to check when I was getting up. Definitely nothing to do with chatting to Lee and Vicky until 3am. Aching from all the wood moving so might just
Read moreFriday and today we do finally get the deliveries that I was expecting on Tuesday. First up, Amazon. 9am and another call on the French phone to say that he is here but this time I was prepared for a delivery driver, admittedly not him. I have however saved his number on my phone now as I guess, maybe unsurprisingly, that we only seem to have one Amazon delivery guy
Read moreBusy day ‘at the office’ today so not much going to happen on the house. Pretty happy with the colour of the desk now I can see it in the light. Big meeting this afternoon so checked the background view on Teams. Not great as the shutter at the back is open. Seems the view from the other side is better so will reorientate it for now, until Matt gets
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