The Art of Positive Thinking!

We're gearing up for our next trip over.

The plan is for more pointing, but also now have appointments with four different trades so that we can push the work forwards.  Each little bit of good news (just a response from the contractor) lifts our spirits and now I begin to feel that this is not just a dream but will become a reality.

My latest epiphany was regarding the entrance/driveway.  Simon likes Pink Lady apples, which are enourmously expensive and seeing as the ground there is so fertile and we have fig trees, apricot trees and there was a pear tree (but it died!) I dont think it would be too much of a stretch to grow a pink lady apple tree. 

Whilst I was awake in the night a few nights ago (I do that a lot.....think about the house and our plans in the small hours) it came to me that rather than just have a boring rectangle of space as a 'homage' to the car for parking, why not plant an apple tree in a raised bed in the middle of the space, with a lovely wall which will reflect the stone of the house/barn and the well and then the car/s can come in and progress around the right hand side (as we're in France) park along what was the old boundary between our land and our new land, and then they can continue around the circle to exit! 

Once the wall has been built on our boundary between us and Dominique, then the aspect of the house will turn around all together.

Simon and I have talked about having a water feature in this area (which will then become a courtyard) as this will provide white noise.  So then we thought that it would be nice if the water feature was actually part of the wall.

We just need to get things to move forward this year.........I need to turn into a terrier and keep nipping people heals!!

This isnt where the positive thinking ends tho!  I also have plans for my chickens.  Not just 'chickens' either.  I want to choose the chickens for the colour of the shell of their eggs as well as many other considerations!  When we have people staying, especially those with children, how lovely would it be for them to go on their 'egg hunt' and find different coloured egg shells??