Firstly for my family, friends and clients who check in to my blog from time to time
my apologies for the lack of updates since early January.
I decided to spare you the details and photos of our recent trip to South Africa suffice to say it was the most fantastic holiday with Cape Town, MeerKats and our safari in the Kruger being particular highlights!
And so the last few weeks have been taken up with preparing our properties for the season ahead, we always like to upgrade interiors, carry out painting and then of course there are the pools and gardens, the latter of which have sadly suffered from one of the shortest but coldest winter snaps since 1948.
At Les Cypres, we have carried out painting to the interior, updated the sofa, bought new chairs for the garden and sun bed cushions amongst other things.
We opened the pool today, when we returned from holiday it had over 6 centimetres of ice on! it is still too cold for swimming, but with the summer cover by early April it should be warm enough - for the brave!
Talking of brave, we have already welcomed our first guest to one of our gites, Sean, is spending a month learning French at the local language school which have just moved to new premises right in the village - more on that to follow.
In Les Cerisiers we changed the sofa and again carried out some decorating to keep everything ship shape!
You may recall the disater that stuck us last October when the Sangliar torr up the entire grassed area by the pool. We have put in place defences that we hope will keep out the animals and so felt it safe for the new lawn to be laid.
I will update over next 48 hours with details on Le Chene also!
as they say, watch this space.....................
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