More Land

Have you not got enough is probably your first reaction, and our answer would definitely be yes, particularly at this time of year when we are fighting to bring everything under control. However, last year, in discussion with our neighbour Nicole (and consequent closer study of our "Deeds") we discovered that she owned a piece of land about 10 metres square that ajoined ours at the bottom of our back field. OK so what we thought, until a couple of weeks ago when we received a letter summoning us to an on-site meeting with a "Geometre-Expert". As you probably know France is divided up into numerous small parcels of land, mostly as a result of the inheritance laws. As a consequence a whole profession has grown up to establish boundaries. So, after a couple of hours of measurements with very high tech equipment yesterday, our wildflower meadow has increased by an infinitessimal amount and Nicole's bank balance has reduced by a considerable amount!!