When we arrived the grass and weeds were much the same as we had seen in August. Our fist task was to clean the house and make it habitable we were used to camping so this was not to bad. We did not have full plumbing we had water and electric we had camping equipment for tea and eating, the weather was like a cool English summer with temperatures around 21 degrees.

The plumbing had been disconnected or split apart from frost, it was clear that nobody had lived in the house for a while. French copper pipe is not annealed so it is very difficult to solder the French tend to use a brazing set, nowadays they use plastic or push fit.

Once we had established our selves inside we treated the garden to a minor makeover.

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