Little House on the Prairie.

More sunshine all day and quite warm too.  We did our physical jerks before setting off to Tim's house which is near a town called Cussac between Angloueme and Limoges.  Tim is an ex-cop who worked at Kendal.  We have visited about two years ago and knew what to expect.  It is a wooden chalet style house with a couple of fields and a large area of woodland with a lake.  It is complete peace and quiet and Tim enjoys the 'good life'.  He chops his own wood and has a few fruit trees and keeps hens.

Here is Tim and Janice at the Little (Big) House on the Prairie.  What a house, it's amazing.

This is Tim's lake.

We picked sweet chestnuts from the ground and cooked them and ate them as an aperro.  Tim warned us that they had a particularly smelly side/after effect but we won't dwell on that!

We had a lovely meal and plenty of drinks.  Of course we took full advantage of wifi and his washing machine.  I want to scotch the rumour that we only visit people to use their facilities!!  Well at least that's what we tell people when we arrive.

The next day (Thursday) we actually had drizzly rain for most of the day.  So we stayed put for the morning.  I was amazed by Tim's coffee grinding technique.  He has a wall mounted coffee grinder and instead of using the grinder handle he connects his cordless drill and got the job done in double quick time.

In the afternoon we went for a walk into Cussac and went looking at the supermarket at propane gas and the necessary connectors and regulators.  It's all a bit confusing because I'm still unsure what I might need to connect up to continental gas bottles.  I was so sad that I took pictures of gas bottle nozzles and regulators!

Here's a good photo of a gas bottle.  In case you were interested, the problem is because of the external screw thread when I need an internal screw!!

Tim has invited some friends around for a meal so it will be more of the good food and drinks.tonight.