At last, after many months of frustration and angst, the sale of our house in Harrogate has reached completion! Too late, I suspect, for us to avoid paying a large sum to the French government in tax on the sale of a second home; they moved the goalposts on February 1st, but what a relief that it’s finally sold.

There’s a restaurant near here which specialises in venison and wild boar; it has a great reputation, so we’ll be having a trip there to celebrate the sale, before the week’s out, .

Sorry, but there aren’t any photos today; another bedroom plastered, another few blocks on the hall walls, oh, and I stirred them up at my patchwork club by arriving on my bike!