News from Roy and Michelle

well I wouldnt want to do that journey again! We left at 6.50am and arrived at 11.30pm, and only had 1 meal stop apart from on the ferry,which was an hour late.
The cat eschewed his cosy bed and crapped and wee-ed in and on it, and spent the journey in the litter tray, I suppose once you've crapped in your bed the options are limited!
He's a bit unsettled, doesn't want to go outside and doesn't like the litter tray now he has more choices,we keep looking around for puddles, but none located so far, one of his favourite places to lurk is under the bath, then the top of the wall by the roof in the bedroom, but I'm sure he'll settle down, he sits with us on the sofa and purrs madly, will come to us both for a stroke but if anyone else comes in he hides.
We're trying to make the best use of our limited space, r has been building shelves and we're trying to find storage. The barn will be the opposite extreme when we eventually get there.
Just got a completion date in may from the agent, notaire then changed it, but it should be about 16th, fingers crossed!
tried to find seed trays and plastic pots today, finally located some and nearly had a fit at the price, 2 bags of compost, and we'd spent 50+ euros!!!!!!!!!!!
will know next time, start washing out the yogurt pots, for reuse. some things are soooo expensive, for no apparent reason.
It was lovely to see you, and we really enjoyed our trip, but it would have been even better spread out over a week, too much in too short a period, ideally.
We're off to the Jazz venue tonight, with Manu - sue's 'boyfriend' if he gets his chores done.

continued on Sunday - the weather has been glorious today after the last couple of indifferent days with some rain and some sun, today has just got better and better, we planted lots of seeds this morning and have filled the diy mobile greenhouse we bought - its almost identical to the ones we got from B & Q last year. After lunch we went for a walk out the back of sue's land, we walked through a neighbours fields that slope down a hillside, through some woodland to the Gorre river. Horses graze in some of the fields and we saw lots of pulmonaria growing wild, cowslips and violets, lower down in the deeper woodland we found carpets of white wood anenome/anemone (?), and some other interesting flowers which r endeavoured to photograph, we will try and publish them on the blog. The river was lovely and peaceful, no one around, I was really enjoying it until r reminded me about the wood piles being perfect habitat for aspic vipers! R was taking pictures of various things and we could see our barn across the hillside at one point, which was very pleasing.
It really is delightful countryside, walking randomly across the fields and through woodland, a bit like being in Blickling, but without the people, set paths and "grooming" of the environment.
Yesterday we went on a regular browse round a Depot Vente (basically secondhand/junk furniture) and found a chair for r's work area, it is a wooden chair with a cane seat, you know the holey type, apparenty it was a barber's chair because the backrest can be moved up and down on a ratchet type system, which makes it a bit more interesting.