Friday 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
Read moreInitially woke up about 7:30am thinking I had heard a truck and in great anticipation of today’s deliveries. Far too early though so another hour’s lie in before my first meeting. Quick call and a few emails done when I get a message from Matt: Morning… I just logged into CDiscount to see if I could track the order and it says this: “Delivery scheduled for 11/27/2020 between 8 a.m.
Read moreFirst day waking up alone but it’s not all bad when the sun is shining. Didn’t hear the doorbell but I am sure I just heard van doors slamming. Yep, there’s a chap on the doorstep. Best throw some clothes on and go to meet him. Hmm, can’t work out how to open the last of the three locks. Side door it is. Nope, left the keys somewhere else. Backdoor,
Read moreNo, we haven’t decided to give up and return to London. Unfortunately Matt had a call on Friday to confirm that he had to go back to London for his 12 month Cancer follow up. What with lockdown he will need to self-isolate for 2 weeks before he can have a Covid test and then wait another 3 days for his surgical appointment. There’s little point in me returning with
Read moreWas definitely cold last night! Matt’s up reasonably early and he has a present for me.. Super excited, my axe has been sharpened! It’s a good man that’ll get up and sharpen your axe for you before you get up. Also got our first post today which was exciting, thanks mum. Time to test the push lawn mower to see if we can at least get that up and running.
Read moreCertainly cold last night, we had our first frost! Both got a bit of a lie in which was nice. Meant that Matt didn’t really make the most of the list of jobs that I gave him to do in the morning though, he was only just out the shower when I got up. I swear he spends the best part of an hour in there though – I can’t
Read moreIt’s Friday, and you know what that means – a barrage of work and emails that everyone has sat on and jobs that have to be completed by Monday – Yay! Matt was up at the crack of dawn. I came down to find him browsing second hand cars but still not much closer to defining exactly what we need. We have a bit of a pros and cons list
Read moreBusy morning with work. Did have a shower though which was very exciting and super-hot which was amazing, the hottest I have been since I got here! One of the jobs for the day was to update all the measurements we have of the property as the floors never quite fitted together. Seems that the kitchen is about 4cm wider at one end for starters. Matt has successfully remeasured
Read moreBienvenue a tous! Suivez-nous sur une visite de la maison… Welcome everyone! Follow us on a tour of the house… [Today’s update is a video tour of the house!] This video was shot yesterday morning before we completed destruction of the kitchen cupboard and opened up the second door, as mentioned in yesterday’s update.
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