Regular and longstanding readers of this blog will know that over a year and a half ago Tanya and I bought a falling down property in Provence. The plan was to knock it down and build a new place and we told the vendors/architects and builders we were only interested in the transaction if the job could be completed in a year.
I haven't written much about the project since for the quite simple reason that it's become too painful. Every time I think about all the problems we have encountered I start frothing at the mouth. Today there is finally some hope, yes the project that is already over a year late is about to get started. It may even happen next week. Champagne will be popped and we have already planned to let our daughter Elodie dig the first part of the hole for the foundations.
All this may off course be terribly optimistic - something will go wrong, and I'll be left furious and builderless.
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