March visit 2

New shutters

Dominique Baty has fitted our new shutters – I was so concerned in the last post with getting down the stuff from our meeting with M. Boyer and the “breaking & entering” that I never answered the first question: it was Dominique B who replaced the chain, when he came to do something to the shutters (I think he came back & painted the têtes-bergères and hinges). He had come to the house a couple of days before we got back, and found the chain cut. He had noticed that Dominique D’s stuff was missing, so we think DD must have gone to the house, knowing that we were due there at the weekend. Sneaky, I think just about sums up how I feel about him at the moment!

Because it had been so rain-soaked, the paint that Dominique B had touched up was still wet and that, coupled with the knowledge of how the damp upsets new joinery, made us reluctant to open the shutters. So we didn’t! Of course that meant no sun got into the house, so it didn’t warm up much.