After several of months of hole digging, filling, redigging, finding a reason for another trench, redirecting the sewage pipes so that they now circumvent our property, they have virtually finished.
Now it's our turn.
For the uninitiated, a French building site starts with the arrival of a crane. Yes, honestly. No carrying hods of bricks, no barrowing of blocks or cement - crane it.
Whilst we are still in the process of getting the estimates into the land of the vaguely realistic, the builder has decided he'll start anyway.
As we walked past today we saw that the crane weights had arrived
Apparently these arrived yesterday together with the wooden blocks/sleepers on which the crane stands. These had been lifted over the garden wall to be plnoked there.
The work should start next week, but I thought you'd like to see some of the blossom in the garden at the moment. Spring is merging into summer. The first swallows have arrived. We heard our first cuckoo last Tuesday. The big tree down the far end is a cherry and the espaliers are pears
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Cool, I like it. Race on 1st to move into a finished house wins, although we are still awaiting planning approval and are slightly behind we dont have the French part of building holding us up! Race you..... Ill meet you for a holiday to discuss houses and progress sometime
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