Return to chaos

Those close to us will know that our arrival home fortunately coincidided with a huge handful of disasters within the family. What with new hips, care homes and hospital visits we haven't really touched the ground yet.

The french property market, just like any other countries, has a few perculiarities. One of these is a French organisation who have the right to buy any propertythat comes on the market. From the time when all the papers are first registered with the notaire, this organisation has 8 weeks to decide if they want to buy your property or not.

Fingers crossed it will all run smoothly from here.

Even with the turmoil we returned to, we still managed to squeeze in an 80th birthday for my granny, a pig roast, a barbecue with Keith and Sue, and the rest. We will catch up with all and sundry soon when we know if we're coming and going.

Taking this all into account it means that we should complete on our purchase at the begining of December. We hope to ship our stuff over before Christmas and then move in at the beginning of next year.