Never has a page looked blanker.
After a day of doing the TVA (VAT) to send to the accountant this afternoon I’m struggling to find something to talk about….so let’s start with the news that it was sporadically sunny enough today ( in between the drizzle) for a whole wash of clothes to dry. I know it doesn’t sound that exciting but when there are bits of clothing hanging from every surface in the house it really is quite a relief to be shot of a fifth of it. I even managed to pick up a hoe latterly and get rid of a few weeds from the flower bed, before sticking in some of those metal curly poles for tomatoes. We don’t actually have any plants yet but the stage is set. So a productive day all in all.
I ordered a bouchon for the Mini, which they’ve said will be in tomorrow morning, but Matt isn’t going into Limoges to pick it up until he goes to get his new key on Monday so I’m still a prisoner of Champsac – although I’m sure there are much worse places to be interned. I can’t hardly bear to believe (like the mechanics in the BMW garage) that the problem could be so simple but Donald reckons that the art of diagnosing mechanical problems is dead and as he used to have a garage and watches Midsommer Murders my money’s on him for the time being. You don’t watch John Nettles year in year out without learning a thing or two about mystery solving.
Kevin did us a 3D image of the eco house at Les Ollieres this afternoon and it seems that our beach pacing wasn’t in vain as it seems to work almost exactly as we imagined it would. The problem is finding appropriate furniture to put in there but as soon as we have done it will go on the web for all to see and where anyone interested in having one built can fight it out amongst themselves as we currently only have three plots available and two interested parties.
Matt went to see Niall the architect today too. He has just been over to Ireland and brought back the Sunday Independent in which there was an article about more or less the same houses being built on the SW coast of France. I think there were about 50 plots for sale on the land. I can’t remember exactly now, and Matt has taken it away with him to show someone else, but the cheapest house, which is made of wood and is 84m² ( with 3 bedrooms!) was about 270€000. The largest house of 200m², and with 5 bedrooms, was over 600€000. If you think that’s expensive you might be interested to learn that the building plots, which are all about 1500m², aren’t included in that but cost another 250€000 on top.
I don’t know how long you’d have to live before that started paying for itself