Moving to Cambieure

Well we are on the move again this weekend from Limoux to Cambieure. We have collected a lot of things over the last 3 months, and it’s surprising how we got it all into the small flat in Limoux.

After doing some cleaning up in the house and tidying the garden a bit, Wouter has done some McGyver work on the bathroom and kitchen so we now have:
working shower with curtain, table (made from an old piece of hardboard and the legs are from the supports of the overhead kitchen cabinets).
A working kitchen – plugs, hotplate for cooking (we cannot use the current oven as the element is very loose and the cooktop is unusable as the gas hoses are condemned and we’ll replace them when we redo the kitchen). We removed the overhead kitchen cupboards to make a kind of sideboard (the legs went to the bathroom as above) – I now have a working bench top and the difference in light in the kitchen/dining area is amazing!

Wouter has also been doing a lot of work in the garden – I have a couple of raised beds to plant some winter crops – we just need to fence it off against beast (Cassy – as some of you may not know he loves radishes, beetroot and lots of other vegies straight from the garden!) and other possible wild critters.

There is so much to do, but it seems to be coming together. That is, we can see some sort of plan on how we can manage to do everything which needs to be done, but the tunnel is long and the light at the end is faint. But we’ll get there. It will all be much easier when our household goods arrive from NZ – they sailed Friday 26th and we should get them (all going well) at end October or beginning November.

After the first cleaning up, our work on the house starts with painting most of the woodwork (doors and windows), removing all sorts of wallpaper – a variety of colours and patterns which I will post later.... getting plumbing and electricity sorted, curtains and rods, repairing door locks and shutters, to name but a few. The outside work is a huge task but we feel we can get on top of it if we do a couple of hours a day.

For those of you who email us regularly, we have no internet connection until 8th October, but do keep in contact as we plan to check emails in the local cafe in between.