October Remembered (?)
The October visit had the principle objective of closing the house up for Winter. Neither Sally nor I maintained a daily blog on this visit, so this is a summary post (of what I can remember three months later). You may recall that Sally had stayed in August, when I returned to the UK. In that time, she’d been doing a little decorating in the loo (not a euphemism) and a lot in the main bedroom. I was especially impressed by what she had achieved with the latter – the white walls and black beams looked really nice (& traditional). Though closing up the house was the main reason for this visit, I was also hoping that the taxe d’habitation bill would be waiting for us on the door mat. My understanding was it was due in October and we’d received no demand in the UK. It wasn’t waiting for us so we popped to the local treasury office. We paid the taxe fonciere (which had reached us in the UK) but were not able to pay the d’habitation yet. We did eventually get the demand back ...