Villedieu Les Poeles

Well, thats where we are! It means 'cooking pot'. A jolly good name for somewhere for us to live, and my mum found it on the map without me spelling the whole thing, so it must be good. She even said it looked close to home on the map, so even easier for visitors.

Well, after a lot of thought we phoned the estate agent again today about the maison de maitre in Domfront, however, it is sold subject to contract. As everything happens for a reason we have moved very quickly on and found an extremely nice English agent in this town who moved here four years ago with a five year old and an eight year old and has not looked back. That sounded like a good start. She may also have found us a great property already. It is close to the town only 20 kilometres from the sea and has 5 hectares of land. That means plenty of room for animals, a toy farm, a camp site, softball pitches and bed and breakfast!!! It also has a lake and a river running through it! (Good news for the fisherman amongst you.)

We are not visiting the property until Friday, so don't get excited too soon. We are also visiting two others, so you never know, by Friday afternoon we may not be homeless!! It is also habitable, so no woodworm we hope!

The town here is lovely. It has a Bell Foundry, that we hope to visit, and is famous for its lace, copper and pewter work. The copper shops in the high street were huge. Josh even found the pot in Georges Marvellous Medicine. (A Roald Dahl book for those of you not familiar).

Anyway, enough for now. Love to all and speak soon.

xxxx