We've worked on the exterior for a while with Chris doing the plastering between the insulation panels and over the screws and around the windows with special thermal render. Judy has been varnishing all the wood and putting on a pva coat with a roller - not the favourite job! One week we were working in 25 degrees!
Then Chris went to London for a sort of job interview (maybe 4 weeks work a year) with the GMC, flying Toulouse to Gatwick (the job doesn't really matter but he'll be really p...ed off if he doesn't get it as it's doing his old job more or less). A few days after he came back we had a call to say that his mother was not likely to live much longer and she finally died on 10th March at the grand old age of 97. Needless to say there was lots to organise, although Chris' sister Sue did lots of it. Like when the undertakers said that the crematorium would not accept the application form electronically - and when we went to post the original, La Poste was on strike! We seemed to spend most of the week on the phone.
That Sunday was the chasse (hunt) lunch which ran from noon until 5:30, aperitifs, wine, four courses including roast wild boar, armagnac... aahh! Monday was the long drive up through France then down to Devon to scatter ashes and sort out her flat for sale, including multiple trips to the tip. All very stressful, but then drove up to North Wales for a relaxing weekend with Nicky and Glyn who are waiting for the birth of the latest edition to their menagerie - a foal. Walked the dogs and generally chilled out.
Hence not that much progress on the house in March.
But we spent a day in Bordeaux at an anti-nuclear protest and have been doing the usual social stuff.
This weekend we spent snow-shoeing and walking at Gavarnie in the Pyrenees with our walking group. Very convivial and wonderful scenery. Amazing weather again so not a lot of snow about but enough to make it look pretty. As an aside, apparently April Fool's Day is called avril poisson (April fish!).
Back to work now and hopefully will make more progress over the next couple of months.
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