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		<title>Covering up the past</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We moved here in November 2001 and it was only in spring 2003, after we had lived here for more than a year, that our house was more or less pleasant to live in and I had time to turn my thoughts to the concrete shed that stood a few yards away. The shed housed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pompe a chaleur &#8211; reduce your heating bills, at what cost?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that summer is here at last&#8230;I thought I&#8217;d take a look at the best ways of heating your house in France. Better late than never, and it might just help reduce the cost of fuel / oil next year &#8211; which I&#8217;d guess won&#8217;t be any less than it is now. There are now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the Dropt Valley flood plain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 08:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The region around us in the valley of the Dropt River was little developed during centuries gone by, which helps explain its natural beauty. This lack of development was in part because of the natural character of the soil &#8211; there is typically a 30 centimetre layer of soil on top of a dense thick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the roof in good condition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the attic of the house this week, treating about a zillion beams with wood protection and treatment. This involves wearing a protective mask and goggles, handling noxious chemicals and generally looking silly, but seems preferable to waiting for the roof to fall down.
Funny thing is, the attic of the house is probably the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come home to a real fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week ago we had a big wood delivery &#8211; eight stères (cubic metres) of oak &#8211; to burn in our wood-burning stove. Given the price of oil for the central heating this is a good thing.
Woodburning stove heating works very well for us, especially because the converted barn where we live is more or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heating our French barn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been living in the barn for almost three years now, and very pleasant it is too. By way of keeping warm we have oil central-heating, installed whan we did the renovation, and a woodburning stove added a little later, in an effort to save the world and spend less money.
The principle is straightforward. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mains drainage is coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we first arrived here in France, the house had no connection to mains water &#8211; all the water for the house and farm came from a spring that we have in the &#8216;garden&#8217; (read &#8216;field&#8217;). We paid up for a connection to the mains water and now only use the spring for watering the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House prices in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we bought our house in south-west France about six years ago (actually come to think about it, almost exactly six years ago to the day) there was a suggestion that property prices in the region had been inflated by rick-kid foreigners like us coming in and buying up properties at inflated prices.
It was never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold weather payments and expat builders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of words in praise of French expats today! That&#8217;s not like me, I know, but even I can try and be pleasant sometimes.
First in the queue of honour is a newspaper called Connexion, produced in English for the expat community. This gets delivered to our door &#8211; free and unrequested &#8211; from time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets give it a push</title>
		<link>http://www.francethisway.com/wp/lets-give-it-a-push/2007/03/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our tobacco barn has troubled us since we arrived. It is big, at 20 metres by 12 metres, and quite close to the house and barn. It is useful for parking and storage, and sometimes these old wooden barns are renovated into gites. So we have spent five years trying to decide whether to smarten [...]]]></description>
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