Six years on, and I now have pictures of before and after the renovations…
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Before and after…
Posted in Living in rural France..., The trials of renovation... on October 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Termites (2)
Posted in The trials of renovation... on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Termites are bad things. They have a voracious appetite for moist wood and to get to this, they’ve been known to munch and crunch through 2 inches of concrete! They also operate a frighteningly effective communication system and have a collective intelligence that should make us shudder. Some experts reckon that if we humans only [...]
Termites (1)…
Posted in The trials of renovation... on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I bought my house because I fell in love with its light – it seemed to cascade in through the tall elegant windows. I just couldn’t get enough of it (understandably of course, after 25 years in Ireland). Like in Africa, the light here changes not only with the weather but with each progressing hour [...]
