Cevennes - Sambuget


 

 

 

We first tackled the main room upstairs. Our thought was that this was managable. However we reckoned without the stuff the previous owners had sprayed on the wall - Crepi. Almost impossible to paint, it took us several days to cover the walls - we finally resorted to opening cans of paint and throwing the contents at the wall! Although you can't see we also worked on the roof to stop the leaks and treated the beams with some highly toxic chemical that left us zonked for days:-)



The main room after repainting - we learnt from our previous experience and hired a spray gun. We also visited Ikea and got ourselves a few items.

 

Doris has set up office on the Mezzanine

Our first success with the bread machine - and in case you are wondering, its a 20 minute drive to the nearest baker and I'm not doing that in the morning!
There is a small pool/pond that is fed from a natural spring somewhere on the hillside. We drained it and then re-laid the flagstones around the side. Then we cleaned it out. 

 Eh Voila - actually looks quite reasonable doesn't it? - not exactly Olympic size, but in the heat of the summer will offer a welcome break. 
  Summer comes early in the Cevennes - not bad for March 6th, the temp climbed past 20oC and we figured it was time to give the pool a try.......

 

Joy - a little cold but this is what owning a house in the south of france is all about - eat your heart out Sis:-)
  The normal residents of the pool look on with some degree of coolness - a couple of the local Salamander who were ejected along with a half meter layer of decaying leaves when we cleaned the pool out.

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