Latest update is that we have been given a sign date for the house in Thezan les Beziers.
All going according to plan and we should meet the Notaire, and the representative of the Parish of Montpellier (the vendors) in the Notaire’s office at two pm on the 7th December.
There we hand over a cheque and they give us the keys.
I have telephoned a charming lady in a bank in the nearby village of Murviel les Beziers and she has told me that if I call to her the day before she will give me the necessary cheque to give them, in the meantime we have to send the requisite amount electronically to her.

All tremendously exciting.

This is the house from the back.
Hopefully a picture which we will regard fondly in the future
as a “before”

We have both decided to travel to Languedoc for this auspicious occasion and for the first time ever when we went to Ryanair we were able to book the two of us, return, to Carcassonne for 1 cent each journey, mind you by the time you add on the various taxes it becomes €80, still cheap though.

Sile and I, with Sile’s sister Una and husband Martin, have rented a house in a nearby village for the week after Christmas so I reckon there will be much Mrs. Mopping going on for that week.
In February Clive Nunn and I plan to go out to start knocking walls and at Easter Sile and I intend to camp in the house for a fortnight.
The two months of the summer will of course be spent there.
Roll on the Summer!