Winter Daffodils
Hello Daffodils, What are you doing here? I mean, it’s always lovely to see you, but we weren’t expecting you for another 6 weeks or so. First daffodils A sunny winter daffodil The post Winter...
View ArticleNew House, New Project
We spent over a year buying our plot of land in the French countryside. Now that it is ours, and the builders have started work, things are moving fast. Our land before… … and after starting excavation...
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The excavations are done, the driveway is in, and string lines mark the outline of the house. We have visited suppliers to choose tiles, bathroom fittings, windows, and doors. It’s exciting, and...
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Things are progressing quickly with the house at the moment. We’ve had our second site meeting and reached the first building milestone – foundations. We have foundations Here’s what’s been happening:...
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As we sat on the early morning train between Lyon and Vichy last week, I wondered if it was getting light a bit earlier in the journey than the previous weeks. We took that early train frequently...
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We are in the middle of a longer-than-usual gap between site visits. Part of me is itching to go and see the house, and another part of me is glad to have some time to catch up. No site visit doesn’t...
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We had our third site visit last week. More of the utilities are going in, and the builders have started the walls. We’ve also been working on the bathroom design recently. Kink in the Bathroom...
View ArticleStained Glass Metro
One of Lyon’s metro stations, Place Guichard, has a stained glass wall. It is only really visible from inside the station, behind the ticket barriers. Just like the windows in a cathedral, it is dark...
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Another round of train strikes made getting to Vichy difficult for the second site meeting in a row. We had a beautiful sunny day for our visit, and took the opportunity to scatter some wildflower...
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What a difference a month makes! Over the past few weeks we have watched the walls go up, been able to walk around upstairs and enjoy the view from our windows, and now the roof is going on. Build week...
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