Day: April 3, 2024

Our home before our divorce was big enough to accommodate our dining room furniture but since then the houses I’ve lived in have not been. After coming to live in France coming up to 12 years ago, my last home in Plazac was much too small and the dining room table and chairs that I’d brought with me from England were never used as my living room was far too small.

So they’ve been unused for the whole of that time and have been in storage during the construction of my new house for the best part of three years since I moved out of the old place. But no longer! Since I finished my new cloaks cupboard which represents the last area of interior storage that I’ll have, I’ve been gradually removing stuff from the storage space I’ve been hiring over that time and yesterday that included my dining room table and chairs.

Here’s how my living room looked this morning. Yes, that is a lawn mower that I want to use to cut my grass while my ride-on is out of commission. It needs to be indoors until I can strip and clean its carburettor as I’ve no room in my ‘abris’ while my ride-on is in bits and it can’t be left outside because we keep getting passing showers.

But my dining room table and chairs have found their permanent home at last, permanent during my lifetime anyway. They fit perfectly into the space I planned for them, even including the table centre extension, and all that now remains is for me to bring the two matching floor cabinets out of storage to join them, which were too heavy for me to also bring over yesterday.

It’s been a tiring job because I’ve loaded several car and trailer loads single-handedly over the past couple of days and I didn’t think for a moment how much effort would be involved in putting it all in cupboards and on shelves, mainly because there was no place to store it all in my old house and much of it remained unpacked in boxes for all the years since I arrived in France. But it’ll be worth it because little by little everything is falling into place and my new house is becoming the home that I wanted. At last!