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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…