{"id":17291,"date":"2021-06-12T21:44:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T19:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=17291"},"modified":"2021-06-12T21:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T19:46:27","slug":"to-die-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/to-die-for\/","title":{"rendered":"To die for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Returning home from Brico Depot this afternoon I spotted 32 degrees Celsius on my car temperature gauge but as I drove it slipped back… to 31 degrees. So our amazing weather continues and as it’s so dry and the grass in the fields is so long, all the farmers are out working like crazy getting in the year’s first cut of hay.<\/p>\n

The farmer who lives up the road from me was out working on the field opposite my house up until it got dark last night at around 10.00pm with his machine that spreads the cut grass out into rows ready for the next machine that drives over the rows and bails them up. But he finished relatively early because I could still hear others working in the dark right up until 11.30pm.<\/p>\n

I stopped over to see if the grass on my land in Fleurac has now all been cut and sure enough it all had been and even bailed up ready to be taken off on the large trailers they use to carry 20 bails or so at a time to go into storage. Now that the grass has been taken down to ground level, the views over my land are to die for. Looking east from the road you can now see that although the land isn’t flat and falls away from the road, the slope isn’t very great in the initial stages.<\/p>\n

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And when you look at where the house will actually be built, there’s already a fairly large semi-flat area. Here it is from two directions.<\/p>\n

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So ‘terrassement’ (getting the levels done ready for the build) should be a relatively simple matter, and certainly from what I saw when the company Agrafeuil took out the enormous lime tree that stood originally right next to my house outside the kitchen door, and then created the land contours that I’ve got now.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I mean about the views being to die for. This next shot is the view that I’ll see out of my kitchen and eastward-facing living room window, as well as from the windows of bedrooms 1 and 2. And the best bit is that I own the land right down to the trees, so it can never be taken away from me.<\/p>\n

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And this is the view that will be seen through my southward-facing living room window with the rolling hills of the Dordogne visible in the distance. At some time there will probably be a neighbour on the adjacent land but I can’t see our houses being very close together and in any case, I’m also allowing for it to be possible for me to plant a row of screening trees along my southern border.<\/p>\n

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Oh, by the way, I picked up something else at Brico Depot as well as what I originally intended to buy, and here it is.<\/p>\n

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Before you can start the construction of a new build here, you have to erect a ‘panneau’ on the site that’s visible to the public for at least 2 months beforehand. This is to allow any objections to be raised, although it’s doubtful that they’d be successful as they can only be legal ones and not trivial complaints. So this will be my panneau and at last it shows that things are really and truly starting to happen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Returning home from Brico Depot this afternoon I spotted 32 degrees Celsius on my car temperature gauge but as I drove it slipped back… to 31 degrees. So our amazing weather continues and as it’s so dry and the grass in the fields is so long, all the farmers are out working like crazy getting … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17297,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291\/revisions\/17297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}