Lepod's Blog

The house is heated with a number of ancient radiators and a large boiler which was installed not long before we bought the house but it’s quite a quirky thing and has given us endless fun over the years, not least because Monsieur Dany the man who maintained it for us was such a nice guy, he couldn’t have been more french looking with his twirly moustache, fairly short and round appearance, wildly waving arms and strange accent. Even the other French people in the village found him hard to understand apparently. Really nice man but unfortunately he retired and we had to find a new company. They sent round a young guy in his van with his little dog who kept us both quite busy looking after him, we enjoyed that mind you. Nice day here today, the neighbour across the road came out to empty a bucket of water and told me it was finally time for nettoyage de printemps. Fair enough, we’ve been doing quite a bit of cleaning ourselves. It’s great to see and feel the sun, everyone comes out from their hibernation and walks along the canal.

This afternoon we drove to Ploermel which has a big hardware store and bought some supplies, including a pair of curtains for the lounge but unfortunately because my writing is not the flashest we bought the too short ones, so that will be another trip tomorrow. All good fun though and we had trout for tea so I’m going to call that a win.