Category: House

A beautiful morning. A classic. Cold with open skies with the fog and ‘steaming’ pond.

The men are here to fit the replacement ‘french’ windows and kitchen door, plus have done some work to sort out insulation and wall by one of the bedrooms.

And early progress:

Some changes are starting.

Le pompe à chaleur est en train de s’installer.

After five visits and quotes, and often telling me how difficult the work is, SebMan has started. He was delays because of Storm Ciaren and then the power cuts.

He has made a start- the old poele à bois has been removed and then are new holes in walls and the chimney is partially filled with boarding.

Here’s hoping for a successful outcome

The house in France continues to change though it is hard to keep track of it. It is easy to forget how things looked a few months ago let alone last year.

So here are some photos to show the new hedge that we planted yesterday. The grass area has been cleared progressively in the last few months. More area ‘reclaimed’ hopefully with the grass gaining presence over the nettles and the ‘wld celery’.

And the lastest for the pond which has had some lining added to help control the growth of weeds. I don’t think it will help with maintaing the level of the water. Mores stones added to the edge too.

And we have news trees- two pear trees which I hope with cope with the nature of the soil, grow and give fruit at some point.