This time last year we had taken a few days off work to do a trip to France, in readiness for our move we were hoping to do later in the year. We hired a van as we wanted to take the old cupboards we had bought to repurpose as our kitchen, we also packed in anything else we could fill the gaps with, ably assisted by a number of little helpers along the way - Sabrina, Shaz and Pam. All packed up, we headed off with great excitement, and some trepidation, to begin to set the scene for our new chapter in France. We had always used the tunnel, and got used to their flexiplus boarding which gave us a stress free, fast journey. How easy that all sounds now! In hindsight it really was ridiculously easy.

Over the past few weeks the builders had been in and reworked the ground floor bathroom. Previously this could only be reached via a tiny door under the stairs - it had now been split into two.

One half of it became a shower room and toilet, accessed via the library (which had been dismantled for now), and the other half became a pantry area accessed via an archway in the kitchen. What we needed to do was get the two rooms painted ready for Brian to start fitting the kitchen swiftly once we moved.

Oh how our plans changed, and oh how we had no idea what was going to happen.

*Dismantled library, new recycled door to the new cloakroom, painted kitchen*

What a difference a year makes

Precious time

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