Joel was on his own today and at first said he wouldn’t be needing any help, but he soon changed his mind! So while Kieran and I went to Aire sur l’Adour to buy a sink for the arrière cuisine, Nick was busy playing the role of builder’s mate. Not much progress on the arrière cuisine today, then….

The ground floor internal walls are nearly built now, the garage doors blocked up and Nick and Kieran were set on to cut a hole in the outer wall this afternoon for the French doors in one of the bedrooms. The man came round from Sarremejean to let us know that le hourdis will be ready next week. This is a metal structure that will be put in on top of the ground floor walls, to support the first floor. I gather they’ll take off some of the roofing tiles and a cement lorry with a long tube will pour the cement onto the first floor from above! Sounds pretty clever to me; I’ll be there with the camera.

For my part, I had a meeting today with some prospective French students – English people wanting to learn French, that is. It looks as though I’ve got two small groups; one for beginners and another for intermediates, from next week. I was also told that the maire of a local village is looking for English tuition for himself and his wife, so can I get in touch. So far, so good. 🙂

The link to today’s timelapse video;