One step closer

We collected our plans and the forms for our application for the Permis de Construire from the architect on Wednesday. I then took them down to the 'Mairie' first thing Thursday morning. So now we wait and keep our fingers crossed, hopefully for no more than a couple of months. In the meantime all of our neighbours are giving us the names of the workmen that they consider to be good. Needless to say, nobody's list is the same! And even then they all have the problem of waiting until the men turn up.

We are still receiving new wildlife summer visitors. Our French teacher had told us last Friday that the Nightingales had returned, and last night it was our turn. I was woken up at about 2.30 am to the sound of a bird in full song. It could only have been the Nightingale, because it doesn't get light at the moment till about 6.30am. I'm told he'll only sing till July!!!

In the morning we're off on holiday to Paris for a week. We going to be tourists, but we are trying to avoid the usual suspects. We'll try the 56th floor of the Montparnasse Tower instead of the Eiffel Tower and there's another viewing point fron La Gande Arche, So we'll report on sights of interest when we get back.