Provence Tayl's

We are leaving today for a weekend in Hamburg, Germany to stay with fellow defectors who left England last year.Having spent so much energy learning French we suddenly realised that we know barely any German other than hello and thank you - that seems strange and at least makes us appreciate how our French has come on although at times we do wonder.

Like in the UK the weather has been much cooler this week although still sunny. We had reason to celebrate - our first house sale - although it happens to be our own village house. I spent last Thursday showing a really nice English couple 9 houses and they fell in love with ours. So we sign next weekend and hopefully complete in June. On Friday we went to see this house for our client who is seeking land for hunting. We hope she will now come and visit as there are possibilities to buy a further 25 hectares.

We have at long last had cofirmation that the cut off date for neighbours to object to our planing is the 14th April, so far there have been none although the infamous Irish lady who has obstructed our original access has not been here this year (she is coming at Easter) so we hope she will not cause any problems. All being well we can then sign on the dotted line !18 months after we first saw the land. Our builder has his teams on stand bye so construction should commence in May and take 12 to 14 months.
The saga with EDF goes on as do the bank charges - I gave up calling them asking to see the manager and instead waited 40 minutes in a queue to to get a rendevous next week - that will be interesting.