Oh smokin it sounds bliss, need to get passports sorted! Love reading your descriptions, you write so lovely like you tell a story Hope you post lists on here about yours and your wife's life out there lots
..don't think I'd care to live in France..not now... I did when younger but no urge to these days.... I like England too much and wouldn't fancy being a foreigner in another country with language difficulties... I think it's important to integrate and language can be such a barrier... I very much enjoy what England has to offer.... I think the economy is better managed here...important to have a Monarch as head of state....not a President... and if we leave the EU...as is quite possible in a few years.... it may not be advantageous to be living on the continent if no longer an EU citizen... have to see on that one... but for me the grass is not greener elsewhere......
Think I owe you an apology - moved to France in April (just on border of Dordogne/Haute Vienne) and think I must have brought bad weather with us! Everyone I have met here is saying what a terrible summer it has been - but to be honest - I don't know what you are all complaining about - if this is the worst it can do I will be very happy - I did come from a soggy place up north! We lived next to a reservoir and my OH said there was a reason they put it there - hadn't thought that thru properly before we moved in!
I know it's early days but we are absolutly loving life here in France - we came to try and go back 50 years for the sake of our little boy and our sanity and it is just what we hoped for. We too went to a local fete on our bicycles and came back in the dark without seeing a soul or a car, unfortunately not a deer that time although we see them most mornings on the way to school en velo aussi.
Gardening here is a culture shock, please don't say the weeds get bigger, am fighting with them as it is. Think a GW get together in France is definitely on the cards, Bizzie Lizzie is somewhere near me too, and some of the other 'Forkers' are threatening/promising to visit next year!
How far are you from St.Yrieix La Perche then?
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Hello Smokin Donkey. I think we've met here before. I live in Dordogne, next to Creuse where you are, near Périgueux. I had a friend who had horses in Creuse, but she's moved. It was wilder and even more countryish than Dordogne.
People say it's a bad summer, but I like it like this - not too hot and saves money and time on watering. But each time I've been to England this year the weather was lovely.
The French have been pretty good to us and my children have all married French people. I have 8 French/English grandchildren now. We moved here in 1985 when the children were small, the French schools were good, and free. The countryside is lovely. But I still love England. I suppose it depends where you go and who you meet. My family that we left behind all live in lovely parts of England.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Oh smokin it sounds bliss, need to get passports sorted!
Love reading your descriptions, you write so lovely like you tell a story 
Hope you post lists on here about yours and your wife's life out there lots 
Yes please smokin we want more
..don't think I'd care to live in France..not now... I did when younger but no urge to these days.... I like England too much and wouldn't fancy being a foreigner in another country with language difficulties... I think it's important to integrate and language can be such a barrier... I very much enjoy what England has to offer.... I think the economy is better managed here...important to have a Monarch as head of state....not a President... and if we leave the EU...as is quite possible in a few years.... it may not be advantageous to be living on the continent if no longer an EU citizen... have to see on that one... but for me the grass is not greener elsewhere......
Bonjour Smokin,
Think I owe you an apology - moved to France in April (just on border of Dordogne/Haute Vienne) and think I must have brought bad weather with us! Everyone I have met here is saying what a terrible summer it has been - but to be honest - I don't know what you are all complaining about - if this is the worst it can do I will be very happy - I did come from a soggy place up north! We lived next to a reservoir and my OH said there was a reason they put it there - hadn't thought that thru properly before we moved in!
I know it's early days but we are absolutly loving life here in France - we came to try and go back 50 years for the sake of our little boy and our sanity and it is just what we hoped for. We too went to a local fete on our bicycles and came back in the dark without seeing a soul or a car, unfortunately not a deer that time although we see them most mornings on the way to school en velo aussi.
Gardening here is a culture shock, please don't say the weeds get bigger, am fighting with them as it is. Think a GW get together in France is definitely on the cards, Bizzie Lizzie is somewhere near me too, and some of the other 'Forkers' are threatening/promising to visit next year!
How far are you from St.Yrieix La Perche then?
But if Cornwall wasn't busy there wouldn't be jobs for the youngsters and they'd move away - it happened before ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello Smokin Donkey. I think we've met here before. I live in Dordogne, next to Creuse where you are, near Périgueux. I had a friend who had horses in Creuse, but she's moved. It was wilder and even more countryish than Dordogne.
People say it's a bad summer, but I like it like this - not too hot and saves money and time on watering. But each time I've been to England this year the weather was lovely.
The French have been pretty good to us and my children have all married French people. I have 8 French/English grandchildren now. We moved here in 1985 when the children were small, the French schools were good, and free. The countryside is lovely. But I still love England. I suppose it depends where you go and who you meet. My family that we left behind all live in lovely parts of England.