We’ve been catching up with our team to find out how it is for them in various parts of France.
From one of our sales consultants in the Vienne:
From rushing around talking to vendors and arranging visits with buyers we now have time to tackle some of those jobs we never get to at home.
I have a theory that, in normal times, we do 80% of any job then walk away reasonably happy to start another. I am now returning to the tidying of our barn, excavating years of discarded treasures - old water bottles, the odd leaky boot, 2 sinks (why?) and attempting to finish at least 80% of the 20% that has been left for another day. I thought that after a week all would be immaculate yet I have ended up with a front garden that looks like a golf course (it may rain tomorrow better mow) and a barn full of dusty piles to trip us up on our way to fetch wood at night.
I have found that buying flour and eggs is for the early bird but frustratingly hoover bags are never out of stock. To avoid any murderous temptation, I meet a friend at a 1 km meeting point by the church and we exchange eggs, biscuits or strawberries in an elaborate avoidance dance and shout news to each other at a 3 metre distance
We may be stressed by this threat to those we care about, yet the world is breathing again for a few weeks, pollution is down and we are all reminded of what is really important to us.