Meanwhile at Chateau de Notre Maison, celebrations!

I apologise. I just cannot stop making fun of the Escape to the Chateau program and its spin-offs. The more of them we discover, the more we have to watch. The original pair is particularly amusing. Dick and Angel Strawbridge, or as she says, Stwabwidge 🙂 In the episode we watched today they gave the life changing top tip that if you use furniture you already own, then you do not need to spend money on new furniture!!!!

Mike’s treatment is going well, no side effects etc. etc. Part II begins next week as does the low fibre, high protein diet. This will be a seven week period. As I was mentally organising all of this and going through our accounts, I decided a new project would be a good thing. We had some great auction house sales in the past couple of years of some fairly important items we sent to Spain — so some money sitting around in the bank making 2% before tax. So I thought, what could we do with it? And we decided an apartment could be a good idea. After a little searching we settled on a place in the centre of town, above the Caisse d’Epargne.

I didn’t take pictures of the interiors because there’s already a tenant in place. A very polite young woman in her late 20’s. It’s in very decent condition but could definitely do with a new kitchen. The one there now is still there from when the place was built in 1986. It’s no architectural gem but certainly a practical and convenient address. Anyway, our offer was accepted today and we’re off to the notary next week. This gives us something to plan for in our free time. Kitchen, colours, possibly redistribution of the space, all fun things for Mike to think about on his hour long drive to Albi.

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