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Pottery find
I recently knocked out a small piece of the right front wall of the house to install a new postbox. French postmen don’t get off their electric bikes so need somewhere accessible to drive up to and deliver. There’s even a set of standard heights and positions. Quite anal really. He told me where he’d…
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The interesting Monsieur Roland Amiel
Whilst in the graveyard today, there was a man tending a grave. It was his father’s grave, a man that had grown up in the village. A typical local. A vigneron (person that work on the vines) overalls, beret, southern accent. I got chatting to him, and he was just full of information about the…
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Some house history, 1900-2016
I’ve been meaning to at least jot down some of the history of the house, or at least some of the facts and indeed, some of the fiction. This is just a draft really, jotting down some of the things I’ve heard, so that I can put everything together in a timeline later on. I’ll…
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Exchange Date fixed
Its been a pretty complicated couple of months. Work pressure, setting up a new company in France, and the general apathy of the French system makes a simple task last months. If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll know I’ve been waiting on a set of responses from various bodies – more pointedly, the notaire…
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The Pilgrim’s House
It wasn’t that long ago that I was searching through endless websites and visiting many local villages to try and find a French house for my brother who was looking for a holiday home. By chance, I stumbled upon a grand old derelict family house that had been up for sale for 3 years, and although it wasn’t…