Our diary of life in South West France.

For the second week of 2010, we woke up to snow every day and glorious views of the Pyrenees. We were also snowed in for three days, so the bread, milk and wine stocks ran very low. We made our own bread and opened up a couple of special wines we had bought in South Africa, almost a year ago. Thankfully the roads cleared and we were able to restock with life's essentials.

After far too long, we've been updating the site and have reached August last year! A few more winter nights and we'll be fully up to date. So there's plenty more to come.

We've also updated the Gallery so that you can all appreciate the new collection of drawings and cartoons. They are all for sale as A4 or A3 prints and can be posted. View the Gallery here.

Perry illustrated a book of collected columns.
It's written by Diederick, Caroline's brother, and are all based upon his life as a vet in Holland.
The book is in Dutch and can be ordered via Amazon.co.uk

To read more about the book, Diederick and how else to order, go to Diederick's website www.diederickkarthaus.nl

The enormous job of removing the cement from the outside of the house can be seen in oiur newly updated
Our House.

Here are the diary updates up until August 2009. More to follow soon.

Diariy updates for
May
June
July
August
are all on line. Enjoy the ride.

Perry's professional site is to be found at La Baguette Magique.

Have a wander round the site. One big addition to the site is our Help & Tips section. So many people ask us stuff about moving, buying, renovating, artisans and translating, that we decided to create a host of facts and links for those of you fancying a life in France. To back it up, we've created a bookshop with loads of invaluable and interesting books on renovating, French law, planning permission, living and working in France and learning French. When you buy via the links on our site, we get a little commission, but you don't pay a penny more. It all goes towards the time we spend keeping the site updated.

Click here for the Help & Tips section

Click here for our Reference Bookshop

 

So that's it for now. Grab a glass, better still, grab a bottle, sit back and plunge into the tales of life down in the Hautes-Pyrénées. There are also some new additions to our Links page worth looking at.

PS. If you've just discovered this site and would like to be informed each time we update the site, just drop us an email and we'll add you to our mailing list. Your address is kept only for this reason and won't be given to others.

À bientôt,

Perry et Caroline

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