Bonjour mes amis! Well what an adventure - we met Durand the helpful antiques guy who found us an old oak dining table (not an antique mais a la ferme) - he almost killed me getting me to hump it up the narrow winding stairs to the first floor as it was 10 cm wider than the gap between the banisters and the stair-rail so we had to lift it above the banisters! Thus we broke the free lifting record of northern france.
Anne took the picture of the town square at night last week as well as cooking spitted chicken and roast lamb and salmon trout gifted to us by our neighbour Jean-Claude.
Lots of decorating was done and Ruth and Debbie were very busy getting their bedrooms sorted whilst Dugald, James and myself did the garden - weeding and transplanting and planting for the summer months.
We will be returning in August to do the doors and shop for old dining chairs and hangings for the rougher walls.
love to you all.