Week 20th – 26th February

Snow!

Well later on in the week that is. On Monday we finally got around to installing the loft ladders. The real problem with the ladders I was using before was that they were too big and clumsy and as they lived in the barn it was a pain to bring them into the house without knocking into things. Hooray, no more (I hope). Terence Senior and his wife Karen came around on Monday afternoon with the estimate for renovating the barn. Looks ok, next stop ---the bank.

Tuesday morning the wardrobe arrived. I have to say that the delivery company was first class and the wardrobe was packed extremely well. I would even recommend them. They dropped the wardrobe off on their way to Pisa in Italy. Shame they have to come back with the shelves and door keys! When we put the wardrobe together we found that one set of doors was locked and there were no keys. I had to take the back off the wardrobe to release the locks and that’s when we found that the shelves were missing. They will be back from Italy next Tuesday. We spent Tuesday afternoon with Daniel the plumber going to two plumbers merchants to get estimates for the pipes and radiators. The second one we went to was in St Lo and you drove into the warehouse through huge automatic double doors. I could not get the automatic doors to open, much to Sharon’s amusement.

The weather closed in for the rest of the week and it was cold with lots of snow. Stayed at home in front of the log fire.

On Sunday we went with Peter Gibson to the carnival at Granville. It was freezing cold but the French really turned out in large numbers for a, what I have to admit, was the kind of street party that you would never find in England, a real mardi-gras atmosphere.. There were lots of carnival floats – even one of Charles and Camilla. The carnival lasts for four days and ends next Tuesday when they bring out Madame Guillotine to execute the “king of the carnival” – nice touch. We will not be there as we are going fishing. Yep, fishing. Tell you all about it in the next thrilling installment of the Blom diaries…….

xxx