The blog will continue soon ........  next chapter.

Having arrived back in the UK on August 1, 2017 and ending up in hospital on August 2 as the Dengue Fever turned out not to be Dengue at all. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham blasted “whatever it was” out of my system by putting me on very powerful IV antibiotics for 5 days: it transpired I had Typhus.

Anyway, this changed my plans considerably and suffice it to say I decided to stay in the UK be semi retired find a small flat and take up a part time job. Six months on and with my health now under control I realised that I had made a big mistake and was just not ready to settle down!

The upshot being that on Wednesday, 13 June I depart these isles for the Limousin, in the Haute Vienne Region of France where I am going to work alongside some dear friends who with their family have taken on the running of a 100 acre estate comprising a carp fishing lake (the principal business), some gites, a chalet and a bed and breakfast facility. 

I propose to protect their privacy and so, the blog will be very much about what I am doing, learning and experiencing along generic themes rather than a diary of events. I hope you will enjoy it.

The lake is huge and surrounded by woods which were laid out some 100 years ago but have been terribly neglected for the last 30 years.

I am going to be helping with the management of the woods, the land, the property: woodsman, grass cutter, gardener, chalet maid, sous chef and general handyman. 

For more informatin on the place see www.domainedelaribiere.com

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Google Earth of the approx. 100 acres of the property:  What an exciting prospect!

La Domaine ......  if you basically follow the road along the side and bottom and cut up to the edge of the woods around the lake you get a feel for the size of the property. Go look for more detail on google earth at " La Ribiere, Pageas, France"