We have just had a nice email from our friends Neil and Gina Watson. N&G lived in Garforth near Leeds (Neil worked with me at Whiteley for lots of years and before that at the famous John Waddington‘s of Leeds, makers of Monopoly and Totopoly) and moved out to France for some of the ‘good life’ about twelve months ago. They have a lovely country house in St. Etienne du Bois in western France. Welcome to the blog Neil & Gina, that’s if you have found us yet.
Activity here on site at last today. Dario and the young lad Paco have spent time up here on site today. They seem to have been concentrating on the shutters (that weren’t shutting) and repairing the ruined marble thresholds, together with a few other bits and pieces. We will go up and have a look when they go home to see if it is all to our liking. If we can get then Carlos and the plumber up here, perhaps tomorrow, to finish their bits and pieces off, we could be ‘home and dry’ to quote a well known phrase or saying by the end of the week. Our thanks to Gill for her assistance.
It rained last night and this morning. The temperature dropped down to eighteen and I had to wear my long trousers and socks to go to Albox this morning. However the sun is back out now and it’s back to a more normal twenty six degrees with clear blue skies. It made a nice little cool interlude for us and gave us all a good nights sleep. The cats also seemed to appreciate the cool caravan this morning, although they popped out as usual as soon as we opened the door on our return.