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What’s Exciting and Exhausting???!!!!!………

Unpacking! This week our shipment arrived from Oz, just 2 weeks short of a year since we packed up our home and life in Australia. The truck just happened to arrive on Chris’ birthday, can’t be many who get 93 parcels to open on their special day 😉 Schmidt Global all...

New Year and Jack Frost

The final week of 2020 saw some dramatic weather changes in France with Storm Bella sweeping across the country. We reckon we got off lightly here in our neck of the woods. after taking a trip to the coast and passing through some pretty wet and windswept areas....

Joyeux Noel 🎄🎄

Here’s hoping that we can all take some time out of this crazy Covid world to celebrate and enjoy the time of year. Wishing all friends old and new a Very Merry Christmas 💕 We’ve been lucky enough to meet up with a few neighbours despite restrictions and have received...

Getting on with things!

So the first day of December has arrived and we’re still outside either having coffee in the courtyard or taking a walk around our rural surroundings. Restrictions have been lifted a little but we still want to avoid cities, large towns and crowds in the current Covid...

Exploring

Well the fabulous Autumn weather continues, so each day takes us out walking in a different direction making the most of the sunshine, plus getting our allowed daily exercise 😊 Our local village of Aigre is within easy walking distance (to pick up baguettes and...