La Basse Cour – One Year On

I realised this week that it’s one year since I piled the cats, the Dyson and too many things that had escaped the removal van into the Honda and headed off to Portsmouth to follow Barbara to La Basse Cour and our new life in France. The cats have done pretty well out of it, an endless supply of mice, loads of sunny stones to lie around on and almost limitless fields and hedges to hunt in. And we’ve done pretty well too.

Adam and his fiancée Charlotte came over this week to stay for their visit since last summer - when they were helping us fix the ceiling above the stairs – and were amazed at the changes and difference. When you live with something day in and day out it’s sometimes hard to see the overall picture but compared to a year ago the house now has two bathrooms, walls, ceilings, floors, tiles, doors, a fire and is really rather a nice place to live. They saw all that and reminded us how much we’d achieved in the year. The weather has been exceptional too since they arrived and we’ve declared a holiday for ourselves :o)

The blog has suffered a three month hiatus – no excuses for that except that it seems a lot easier to write regularly when it’s not light until 11pm and there’s not so much to do in the garden. I’ll keep things up to date from here and try to spend a bit of time catching up on the things that have happened since April.