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Work Starts
Its been a little while since I bought the old house, but the time has come to start the slog – things that I can do without having to apply for planning permission. I’ve been held up working and finishing a big project for my brother in another village, but I’ve managed to find some…
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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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Original House Owner – Update
Another neck-breaking session in amongst the musty old tomes at the archives in Carcassonne today. The reading room is light, airy and really modern, yet behind THAT door (where only the staff get to go!) is probably another world altogether. It’s a really marvellous place – not the sort of building you would expect to house such a huge mass…
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Old Postcard of St Frichoux
Came upon this old postcard online of a general view of St Frichoux from the vineyards. It clearly shows the old house, which in those days had pride of place on top of the hill. Thanks to minervois-gen.org for the picture