While holidaying in France during the summer last year we all decided that it would be very nice to have a permanent home in France where we could go for short or long breaks and any of the family could use it. 

The House in France

My daughter set herself the task of finding properties to look at and after only one week of searching she found what she considered the perfect place.  We were not all so sure that this was so perfect as she made out but she went ahead on her own and came back to England to sell her own house in Leicestershire and after a long and difficult time with banks and the seller of the property she is now the proud owner of her own house in the Tarn region of South West France.

It was a very old farmhouse which the owner had managed to modernise up to the living accommodation but he had done very little in the way of doing up the bedrooms and had only put in one bathroom.

My daughter saw a lot of possibilities in the house and has now moved all her furniture into it and is busy deciding what she will do next.   Bedrooms are a priority and walls are coming down as and when she can afford it.   She is making one large en-suite room for herself as she will be there on her own for most of the year.  

There is a lovely pool and it is surrounded by vineyards.   Neighbours are few and far between but the ones we have met are very friendly.

The weather over the January period was very strange for this area of France as it snowed and was bitterly cold but we were as warm as toast as the whole of the main living area is under floor heated and as Lynn has not yet mastered the setting of the heating to come on and off it is on 24 hours a day.  This is very difficult at the present time as she has also not learned enough French to ask the oil delivery man to leave her just a small amount of oil and the last time he came he filled the tank in the cellar right up to the top.  

Log fires are a lovely part of the premises and local people are very good at delivering logs. Also with the vineyards being all round there is a regular supply of old vines which make super kindling.

Life will be very nice over there in the summer and we have already make plans to go for an extended period during June when the weather should be great and not too hot.