- - colour me

 so we started stripping the red bedroom

at first it was a painterly thing

revealing old walls

these ceilings are over 12ft high

and the walls are really bad

hundreds of years of filler

it is taking forever

as the paper only comes off in tiny pieces

and the steamer is a no-no

but we will get there

>>> elec-trickery

have a little think about how many electrical

things you have 

and how many plugs they use

in the UK our plugs have 3 pins

only having a few adaptors to use them in 2 pin sockets

got boring after a few days!

a quick youtube search 

and I was soon re-wiring

12 plugs

there's still more to do

but it's a start

;-)

depart/arrivee

one week ago

my house was packed up

labelled and loaded

onto a huge truck 

we had a few days without any furniture
{apart from some beds I purchased from the previous owner}
one frying pan and a saucepan
two borrowed deckchairs
and some random crockery 

by the third day, the truck arrived
the whole village suddenly wanted to walk their dogs
or visit the local bar
to see what was going on

within a few hours
everything was unloaded
most of the boxes were piled in a side room 
on the ground floor

we call this 'the room of doom'
much of it won't be unpacked for some time

so this is my new home
in La Bastide sur L'Hers

plenty more photos here ~ 
https://www.instagram.com/chocolategirl64/