Posted by Martin on May 28, 2007, 5:34 pm
On 28 May 2007 13:56:21 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
>>
>> I guessed.
>How??
I imagined an old French cottage.
>> If you get enough rain you might get the fishes too :-)
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>>
>I have had panga and lovely it was. For the second course I had
>breast of duck, pink, but I had so many glasses of wine by then, that
>I forgot I don't like pink duck, and I have to admit, it was lovely.
>Time for bed, it is poutrng here, a lof fire is on, I can see a faint
>outline of a volcano and it's almost 11p.m.
>Bon Nuit Martin
>Judith in unsunny France
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Martin
Posted by judith.lea99@googlemail.com on May 29, 2007, 6:54 am
> I imagined an old French cottage.
Not quite, a 6 bedroom old farmhouse made of Auvergne stone. I love
it, it's not at all posh, we have stone floors downstairs, the kitchen
is vaulted and none of the rooms are square, it's heaven and not only
that, our neighbours are exceptional, they are not as some English
percieve the French, they are warm, loving and welcoming.
The sun is peeking in and out so I can try and sow some lettuce today
without it being washed out of the soil.
Judith
Posted by Martin on May 29, 2007, 5:31 pm
On 29 May 2007 03:54:42 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
>>
>> I imagined an old French cottage.
>Not quite, a 6 bedroom old farmhouse made of Auvergne stone. I love
>it, it's not at all posh, we have stone floors downstairs, the kitchen
>is vaulted and none of the rooms are square, it's heaven and not only
>that, our neighbours are exceptional, they are not as some English
>percieve the French, they are warm, loving and welcoming.
OK I imagined all the old cottages and houses we looked at in Brittany before
deciding we didn't want to live there. All had large bread ovens, cracked walls,
rotting window frames and broken slates on the roof. Few had inside toilets,
running water etc. one had no internal doors. One semi detached house/hovel had
a stream running under/through the abandoned attached house. The owner had moved
to Paris and nobody had heard from him for 20 years.
>The sun is peeking in and out so I can try and sow some lettuce today
>without it being washed out of the soil.
We had some more rain and about 10 minutes of setting sun.
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Martin
Posted by judith.lea99@googlemail.com on May 30, 2007, 5:47 am
> OK I imagined all the old cottages and houses we looked at in Brittany before
> deciding we didn't want to live there. All had large bread ovens, cracked
walls,
> rotting window frames and broken slates on the roof. Few had inside toilets,
> running water etc. one had no internal doors. One semi detached house/hovel had
> a stream running under/through the abandoned attached house. The owner had
moved
> to Paris and nobody had heard from him for 20 years.
Ours wasn't much better when we bought it 20 years ago!!!!!
> We had some more rain and about 10 minutes of setting sun.
The sun is shining now but the weather forecast for this p.m. is
dire. I've forgotten where you are Martin.
Judith
Posted by Martin on May 30, 2007, 7:07 am
On 30 May 2007 02:47:58 -0700, "judith.lea99@googlemail.com"
>>
>> OK I imagined all the old cottages and houses we looked at in Brittany before
>> deciding we didn't want to live there. All had large bread ovens, cracked
walls,
>> rotting window frames and broken slates on the roof. Few had inside toilets,
>> running water etc. one had no internal doors. One semi detached house/hovel
had
>> a stream running under/through the abandoned attached house. The owner had
moved
>> to Paris and nobody had heard from him for 20 years.
>Ours wasn't much better when we bought it 20 years ago!!!!!
In Cote d'Amor we found many end of life tumbledown cottages at about 30% of the
price of a similar sized house in reasonable condition. The cost of restoring a
house tripled the original price. There were many restored houses on the market
that didn't sell, for about the same price we would have paid in the Netherlands
at that time. Chatting to disenchanted owners, mainly Parisians, Germans and
Dutch we discovered that outside the two month summer tourist season, the area
was dead and the weather miserable. The weather was sometimes miserable in the
tourist season too. The all time low was AFAIR in 1988 when it rained every day
for the whole three weeks we were there and the temperature never exceeded
16DegC. It was too cold to swim in the sea for any length of time even wearing
wet suits.
>> We had some more rain and about 10 minutes of setting sun.
>The sun is shining now but the weather forecast for this p.m. is
>dire. I've forgotten where you are Martin.
It's sunny and windy today in ZH today.
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Martin
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>> I guessed.
>How??