Woke up to the sun coming in through the little window which was a welcome sight as our plan was to get the new fridge up the hill today and if was wet it would be trickier.

Breezy and I trundled down to Salau with a few chores to do first, filling up with water, giving the pointing kit to Clive and calling some clients for the winter.

Anuk and Rene had been storing the fridge for us in their garage so we had coffee and catch up with them before loading Vinnie up with solar panels and the fridge.

Carefully balanced fridge on the muck truck and relief once we removed the packaging we could fit it through the door (didn’t think of that). The thought of lifting it up through the top window was not appealing. Looks good but we will wait to christen it on our return from Corsica.

The sun was shining so we set too in turns strimming. The remainder of the bracken cleared and all the main pathways to the barn, back terrace and around the out building cleared. Hopefully that will make things a bit easier in 3 weeks time when we are back.

Lunch in the sun and then the afternoon was spent trying to locate everything we needed for our camping trip to Corsica and get things in Vinnie before it rains again. We seem to have found most things.

Rain hit us late afternoon so we called it a day and set about a beef casserole for supper, I am sure it will be yummy.

After our great night just outside Mirepoix where I had delicious stuffed quail with foie gras we headed off through pouring rain to St Girons. Main aim to get food and some veggies to plant up. Amazing how quickly you can shop when the weather was that bad!!!

Back to Salau and a quick coffee with Rene, quick chat with Alison and Peter and then up to the barn.

Wow, still standing and bat free at last. The windows we put in last year seem to have done the trick, let’s hope it stays that way. The rain was on and off most of the day so in between showers we brought stuff up from Vinnie who was very relieved to get rid of the heavy load I am sure!!!. Turned the out house around into a place to live pretty quickly and before you knew it, it was like we had never been away!!!

We had a trip back down to Salau for water and aperos with Alison and Peter and caught up with all their news.

Back for a simple supper and an early night. The wood burner had done it’s job and the place was toastie warm. Good to have a mattress rather than the old lilos!!!