The Story So Far

I thought that it would be good to give some more details of what we have actually been up to in the last five months, before we started the blog.

When we moved out in August, the shutters and new doors had all been fitted on the barn, so the outside was more or less up together, although they all needed a few coats of varnish.

On the inside , our builder ( Mr H) had moved the pain du bois (an arrangement of wooden bars used to tether cattle) around 90 degrees, and was about to fit the joists for upstairs. He did this with the help of three lads, while Tina and I had the demanding work of making them tea.

With the professionals off site, it was our turn to fit upstairs floor. We decided to fit waterproof chipboard as a base, and then we can tile or parquet it when we ( one day) get to the decorating phase upstairs.

This was all done in time for our furniture to be delivered from the UK, as the front of the barn is going to act as storage for a while.

In the meantime, we were also having to tame the garden, as we had not had the chance to visit the house since April so the 'grass was as high as an elephants eye' ( name that tune?). The garden is almost an acre, and it takes a lot of work to keep up together. The vines on the front of the house had almost covered the doorway, the garden path had almost disappeared, and the tree that I use as shade for the car in the summer had grown so much that it would have taken the windscreen out.

And then there we're the mole hills .........

( to be continued )