nos nouveaux voisins

Whilst over in France a couple of weeks ago we were  introduced to our French neighbours Dennis and Teresa (Deni and Teres). They own the little cottage next door and use it as a maison secondaire. What a lovely couple whom made us feel very welcome.

They are retired and don't speak a word of English so it was really great to try our French out. Its amazing how much you suddenly remember when you need to. What we didn't know a little bit of hand gesturing got us by. We managed to get across to them that we wanted to erect some scaffolding in their garden to work on the roof and that we were going to lift the roof and put some velux windows in. They were fine about it and then asked us into their house to look how they had done things roof wise. The staircase was so steep you had to go down again backwards and had no handrail.


We then talked about our children and what they were doing . So all in all we were very pleased and our French lessons are starting to pay off.