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Bittersweet…..it’s sold

23 Sunday Aug 2020

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Nearly three years ago I wrote this post in which I said how I come to realise how much our home had replenished me. How a house is not a home, it us the people in it. I will need to remind myself of this in the next three hectic months, because we have sold our house. Only the second viewers have placed an offer that cannot be refused.

Life really has shown us the way as we had always said it would. It is time to move on.

The feeling is bittersweet.

RD and I were talking the other day and we both cried. I said how I had realised now, how we had struggled for so long living here that at times we had failed to see what we really had. But then I look back over my old posts and I know that is not the case. There has been do much positivity, and we have truly learned to value the simple things.

The opportunity to move on, given to us so quickly is bittersweet because we had yearned to live in France for so long, it was our dream and now our dream has ended.

But time to start a new adventure.

I cannot wait to go home on Friday and sit in my garden with those I love.

Thank you all for your kind and wonderful comments.

Rosie

Poignant Times: No Going Back ….

20 Thursday Aug 2020

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https://www.frenchestateagents.com/french-property-for-sale/view/114748ADR53/house-for-sale-in-ambrieres-les-vallees-mayenne-pays-de-la-loire-france

So here it is. Our house in all her glory, now for sale on the internet and generating a lot of interest.

Why wouldn’t it? The location of our house is second to none, set amidst the rolling valleys of the Parc Normandie, at the very end of a dead end road, with no traffic.

God she is going to be hard to replace (a small tear came to my eyes then.)

But as I am writing this I know that selling up and moving is the right thing to do. I cannot be away from my family constantly on a long term basis, and I will have been away this time for weeks. Albeit with a fabulous client.

Even in paradise we all need money to live.

Over the five years I have been writing this blog I have written about change so often, and how we should not fear it, because it is the only constant we have. So I know this change is right for us, using all we have learned from this adventure to enhance the next one.

And boy! Have we learned a lot!

But I know that with my current job I will only have six weeks at home for the remainder of the year, and for me that is too long away from the ones I love. I also believe that life is too short.

I know that there is a high probability that this is the last summer in this beautiful place. That when I left last time would be the last time I saw the bales of hay waiting for collection from my bedroom window.

That it will be the last time we will sit in the late sunshine, drinking wine and watching the swifts teach their babies to catch the insects in the evening air.

So when I go home I am going to enjoy every sunny evening for the two weeks I am home. I am going to cherish that ‘here and now’. I will catch the sunrises…

and I will raise a glass to the sunsets.

And I will remind myself that Ireland will offer me more of the same, only different.

Poignant Times

Rosie

Change…..Let’s start with the season this week

24 Monday Sep 2018

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After an Indian summer, we woke for the first time since April to misty windows. Over the weekend the autumn started to blow in, and we lit the fire for the first time in five months, and then, after two hours took some of our layers if clothes off because we were too hot! Such is autumn, fools you with warm days, and cold nights, sunny days with cool breezes, and then, like yesterday, torrential rain.

I had a memory come up on FB from last year, three trays of Walnuts that I had harvested from our huge walnut tree.

I realised that the temperatures had not been cold enough to encourage the walnuts to drop, but today I noticed Wiglet running around with a walnut (she loves them) and duly picked ten up from the grass. Let the onslaught begin, we harvested over four thousand last year.

Changes are happening fast now, last week the materials for our roof arrived, and the scaffolding went up.

This week has started with a bang, more materials and a gaping hole in the roof which is being left for the night (we are trusting all we believe, that it won’t rain, and the weather forecasts of course!). After the torrential rain yesterday the roof had it’s last hurrah and the rain leaked in, one more night with a hole in our roof is nothing. I have learnt that now.

But finally it is happening, changes are happening over and over, and even the plans we have had for the past few months are changing again.

Look out for more posts this week.

Moisy