the start of the beginning...

well, this really is the first day of our new life... tony has finished work work - almost - and he's now concentrating full-time on the house. - we've spent a long time thinking about it and a long time talking about it - and now i really think that come the autumn of next year we'll be living in france...
all we have to do is finish renovating the little cottage in sussex and get it sold, and we can go... so, with me looking down from the battlements of Carcassonne here comes the story of how we get on!

Today the lovely plumbers came. They spent 20 minutes drinking coffee, playing with noel and chatting. And 5 minutes temporarily fixing the waste pipes for the new bathroom sink. Though in fairness they had really worked hard last week