Well, moving from a city of almost half a million to a small hamlet of about 20 inhabitants is quite a change...! We've been here about 5 months and it's still taking me some time to get use to the fact that:
a) We have no gas on tap, ie. for central heating and the gas hob. We have a VERY large tank that must remain topped up with oil and we have to buy gas bottles (makes me nervous!) to hook up to our hob.
b) We are not hooked up to a mains sewerage system. We have our very own fancy 'assainissement' that is basically our own sewage plant in the back garden. We have to watch what we flush down the toilet and must never use bleach.
c) The minute we step outside the front door, we get covered in mud - on account of the time of year as well as the mess left from digging up half the garden to fit our septic tank system.
The inevitable happened this week-end when we woke up to a freezing cold house...urgh... we'd run out of heating oil. Drat! We had managed to consume the 700 litres that we had bought at the end of November... Oh dear, need to curb our oil consumption. Luckily we have a lovely open fire that kept us going along with lots of blankets and hot water bottles. Five days later and we finally have working central heating. We've also run out of gas for our hob so are having to cook off one electric hot plate. Oh well, first world problems eh??!!
Looking forward to a cosy night in bed tonight :-)
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