It is now close to four weeks since we left Ireland to come to France for the summer and I have managed about four blogs in that time. This however should soon change soon as we now, after fifteen months of effort and travelling down cul de sacs , have finally got broadband in Le Presbytere so now all we are missing is the house itself.
After a whole month of missed deadlines we think that we are going to regain temporary possession of our house on Thursday with some hope of moving in on Friday or at least Saturday.
Possession of a house with a thick layer of sticky plaster dust on everything, with all our possessions, hopefully packed against the builders in places we thought they would not venture, now in hopeless jumbles in completely different places.
(Note, there are no places that builders, or plumbers, or electricians do not venture)

We have, as already mentioned been incredibly fortunate to have been given the free use of a house in Faugeres for the duration and have even manager to fit in the earlier of the summer stream of visitors in this house.
However it will be great to move in to our own but better still when we manage to get it sufficietly clean to be habitable.

During this time it hasn’t been all work and no play, far from it.
We have enjoyed the sight of the Tour de France passing through the village, been in the centre of the wine festival of Faugeres made various trips to various beautiful villages in our area, and investigated swimming holes in the rivers around us but mainly enjoyed the pleasures of wonderfull sunny days and cool evenings eating and drinking chilled rose on the terrace of the house in Faugeres-the latter being I think the greatest pleasure of this and every summer here.

In the meantime I have stored up in various parts of my computer accounts of our various activities and as soon as I get the time, all will be revealed and shared.

In the meantime here is the first picture of the New Roof.
(Ours is the house on the left with the tree in the garden)