Welcome back readers! I lost the will to blog - for three years! Too knackered from work to be bothered to tell anybody about it I suppose. For those that are interested in that kind of thing, here's a list of what we've done:-

connected ourselves to the main sewer with 30 meters of pipe;
laid 30 tonnes of concrete in the barn as a floor;
installed a wood burner in the kitchen and at the same time rebuilt the kitchen;
put a salle de bain privée (that's an en suite bog and shower to you) in the bedroom;
built a covered terrace in the garden with Stephenson's rocket style BBQ;
one third built a back garden wall;
got married;
and so on......

Ok we've just had the elections for the Mayor and council and there're drinks tonight at the Mairie so we're off to that now. Bye.