Looking back it was a quiet week, but was it really?
Matt, Abby and Jake went home on Monday. We drove them to the airport at Dinard. They flew home and caught a plane the next morning to go to Rome! The morning before they left we visited a couple of Depot Ventes as they were looking for a Louis XV chair. Didn't find a chair but we found an old glass cheese cover and another deception glass for our collection.
Tuesday, if you remember, we had an appointment with Marie-Paul in the Mayors office to sort out our planning "difficulties". Marie-Paul was not there as she had to go to Paris to see her father-in-law who had been taken ill. Never mind, the Mayor's office is run by a nice lady named Annie and she helped us fill out a form to ask for a change to the permis. As the letter will be going from the mayors office to the DDE I am hopeful that all will be ok.
On Wednesday we visited a couple that we met at french classes, Norman and Leslie. They had some restoration work done by a local builder and we went to see the quality of the work. We went to the builders offices and booked an appointment - for March 27th! The same evening we had already booked an appointment with a local English builder - Terry Senior. He came to the house with his wife and checked out the plans. He lookes the best of the bunch so far - should have his devis (estimate) in about a week.
Quiet day on Thursday, spray painted our new cast iron letter box. French classes were cancelled so we stayed in with a bottle of wine instead.
Friday we had Daniel (Marie-Paul's husband) call around to give an estimate of how much the plumbing work will be for the gite. He doesn't speak much English so he brought his daughter-in-law and her husband with him to translate. The current thinking is to have Terry Senior as the building manager, Daniel to do the plumbing, John Crane for the electrics and me as labourer.
Saturday I phoned Morley Green (remember him?) to inquire when the wardrobe will be delivered. He said that the delivery was scheduled for Monday week. Hmmm. Went over to Peters house to rewire a dimmer switch that had stopped working. Payment was a dozen oysters which Sharon and I ate for lunch in the February sunshine. After lunch we decided that it was dry enough to give the new mower a run out. Catastrophe! As soon as I engaged the cutting blades I was enveloped in a cloud of smoke. The blades had seized up completely. WD40 came to the rescue but it was a real pain getting to the blades. Must look out for a set of car ramps so I can drive the mower up on them for maintenance. Peter came over for dinner (Jan is still in England). Beef and ale casserole - good olde English food. After Peter had left and we were putting the dogs to bed Sharon noticed a strange sight in the night sky. The full moon was circled by what appeared to be a ring of clouds. Chris Henegham says that the phenomenon is called a "penumbra" but I am not so sure. Fantastic sight though - the photo does not really do it justice.
Sunday morning was spend digging up the stump of the laurel tree. Exhausted, I spent the rest of the day in front of the telly. Cote de beuf for dinner - yum.
That's all for this week.
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