Visiting the Local Dechetterie and Farm Shop - Thursday 14 June, 2018

Before we were up, the refuse collection folk had emptied our bin – a mundane milestone, but a milestone – nonetheless. This had taken considerable organising and there was every possibility we would have fallen at the last hurdle.

Alas, today is our last full day here. We made sure it was a productive one. Sally did two coats of paint on the kitchen door-frame and a length of skirting and I did two coats on the interior of the kitchen window and frame. We completed the assembly of the IKEA kit and re-organised the kitchen.

Kitchen - Before

                                       Kitchen - During

Study - Before & During

Between coats we visited the local dechetterie (tip) to dispose of an incredible amount of recyclable waste accumulated over the past two weeks, It literally filled the back of the car – mostly cardboard from all of the furniture and electrical goods. The guys at the dechetterie were incredibly friendly and helpful. Whilst our local tip operatives in the UK are not unfriendly, there was still a marked contrast here. To use the tip you need to be a local resident and so we’d taken papers to prove we owned a local house. Whilst the guys did ask if we lived locally, they were happy to accept our word. Next time we go, we’ll be taking a couple of bottles of biere.

On the way back from the tip we stopped off at a local farm shop we’d noticed numerous times. It was fantastic. This time we were only really after some champignons and chicken breast – they had the former (lovely chanterelles) but not the latter – we also took the opportunity to grab a punnet of strawberries.

Images from our Local Farm Shop.

Last tasks of the day are to plan tomorrow’s trip back to the Chateaux Quesmy (I plan to avoid Paris even if it does extend the journey) and print out floor-plans so we can mark up where we want the electric sockets and switches, for our neighbour, Tim, who is going to rewire the house for us.