And another part of the house - the apartment, where we lived for most of 10 years.

Before we moved to France, we had discovered that renting the house to people on holiday was much easier than providing bed and breakfast, as we had first planned. That left one small problem: where would we live ourselves, if other people were in our house.

Harry looked at the adjoining stable/workroom, and issued those now famous words: we could live here, it would only take .....

'Only' ended up involving a major construction project, begun before we arrived, and continued in our first months here. After a new roof, floor, staircase, pointing of stone walls, and lots more, we ended up with a cosy and, we think, stylish apartment.