Will be quick post this week - we are currently sitting in the barn - the temperature sitting in the high 30's at 8 in the evening with no breeze - having a few drinks and listening to some music just trying to stay a little bit cool. Now planning to put in a "piscine" (pool) ha. Had a fairly uneventful week. Would have like to have got more done towards getting the attic ready but it's a bit difficult as a lot of businesses - ie timber yard are closed down for their summer holidays. Never mind - I needed a break from the hard labour anyway. Paul hasn't stopped however - he has started digging out the floor in the living room after we got some more info as to what we need to do to install underfloor water heating. It means the floor needs dropping by about 30 cm - he now thinks their must have been some animals or something housed in this room as it is extremely hard and I can vouch for that after having some brief turns on the end of the crow bar. He is probably nearly a quarter of the way through - I keep throwing out the idea of hiring a mini digger but I think sometimes the hard way is the only way for Paulie!
Earlier in the week he got sick of me having the washing hanging in the barn where he was trying to get into so he slapped up this temporary clothesline for me - not sure if it will be patented - I wasn't sure it would even fit one load of washing but it does easily and works a treat.
We have been doing a bit of research for bits we need - I have hopefully located some old oak beams that we need to replace some dodgy ones in our ground floor. However they have been advertised on a French website and I am having some communication problems with the guy selling them so not sure if we will end up being able to get them or not - we'll see. We had fun today - we ended up at the big 'Troc' fair in Cazals that we tried to go to last week.
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| Cazals - lots of "Troc" |
It was pretty cool - we ended up going around about three times as we kept seeing more things of interest. We got some bargain chairs - 25 Euros for all six - Paul thought he wasn't reading the sign correctly. They have got some fairly dodgy looking vinyl on them but the wood is all in excellent condition and it will be easy to to recover them down the track if we get the urge. I also spotted a timber and material room divider which is perfect for hiding off the twahlett from the rest of our living room. The only other things we got were some lovely old cast iron shutter holders that you embedd in the stone. We did find a couple of building material reclamation yards earlier in the week but other than an iron frame for the front porch we didn't end up getting anything. One of the yards had some pretty nice front doors - for 3 thousand euro - maybe not!
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| Bargains... |
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| Yayy - some privacy at last! |
Paul and John took the van in on Friday to get it checked ie put over the pits - looks like he just needs to sort out some braking issues and it will be good to go. The wierd thing is his vespa three wheeler doesn't have to be licensed as it's considered a scooter so needs no registration or checking. Lookout Degagnac!
We went into Sarlat for lunch yesterday and they had their big market on - lots of the usual 'market stuff' which is not much interest to us - tonnes of people. We had our usual yummy duck lunch. As the regional speciality you really need to like duck - lucky we do!
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| Paul amongst the Sarlat market hordes |
We checked out the beautiful church while we were there and got a special treat - three guys that were standing up the front when we went in started to sing - they were practising for a concert that night - the sound in the church was amazing - fantastic accoustics.
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| Church in Sarlat |
Ok well that's about it for now - was Gabbi's birthday this week - we miss her although could still throttle her from the other side of the world sometimes as she has managed to lose her iphone during her trip to Melbourne. Oh well c'est la vie as they say....love ya Gabs.....
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