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A Week in France

Following on from last week's journal, here's more of what's been happening over in my little patch of rural France.

Lundi - A Bee Sting & Paperwork

There's never any escaping paperwork is there? I'm grateful though that I can continue to keep up to date with things online. And there was heaps of 'keeping up to date' happening today! Bills to pay, documents to file etc etc.

A couple of days ago I was walking narrow lanes that sweep and curve through fields of maize and cow paddocks when I swept away an insect that was close to the side of my face. I remember thinking at the time I was lucky I hadn't got stung as I'd felt nothing. However with a sore, red swollen ear and neck, I've guessed that I must have shooed away one of the huge bumblebees that are everywhere at the moment, and that it did actually sting me. Anyway, I'm okay and you have to expect to share life with insects when you live in the country.

Bonjour and welcome to all our new readers, it's fabulous to have you join us. Of course, it's also lovely to say 'hi' to all our regulars.

My Weekly Journal from the French countryside

To all our new readers who don't know my story, here's a quick recap. (Full story here A Dream Come True) My family and I are Australian and have always been big travellers. My husband and I started travelling to other countries as soon as we were married, but had never visited France. Fast forward to 2009 and we'd still not been to France, but I knew deep in my heart that I'd love everything about France, and really wanted to have a holiday or second home there. So the idea of buying a property and spending as much time as we could seemed the logical next step.

So it was an easy decision to take one of our three children with us on a French house hunting trip and see what we could find. We left Australia in excitement overload, and to cut the story short, found a home in a week, bought it immediately and then the fun started.