Home at last !!

Last weekend we moved house ! Hallelujah !

1 ave Victor Descours

Helped by a number of friends from the church, we were able to transfer and install most things in one day. They worked so hard. The Reformed Church pastoral couple organised for us all to eat together at lunch time - a lovely example of Christian fellowship. We are so grateful for this new home and I am particularly enjoying setting it up. 

Our first meal in our new home

We have ordered a whole new integrated kitchen which arrives 8th Feb. Probably take another month of Saturdays to install.

Claire in our temporary kitchen

View from our lounge and kitchen

The Town Council is building a hangar for the steam trains which are going to come back in 2013.

We still have the top floor to build up - there are 2 bedrooms and 1 small bathroom, but we are planning to use the space for several rooms in order to have visitors and to hold youth group meetings. We need an attic to store things for us and the church, so more planning and building anticipated.

We are really thankful for this lovely house and looking forward to having many visitors.

Happy New Year for 2012

May 2012 be a positive year for you all with joy to share with all around you, peace to calm stormy waters, love which deepens and matures, strength to get through the inevitable hard days, and the right friends at the right time to support you. God bless each and every one of you.

The Girard Family missed out on the 'Good Health' side of the New Year, with all of us ill - some respiratory infection. 

 We are still in the world record breaking longest house move of all time!! Here is a photo of the consultation regarding the future wallpaper of the dining/living room. We had ripped off the former paper which was rose and grey - very bourgeois, but not in keeping with the very strong floor colour, and a little used up by the previous occupants. So I was feeling the pressure to find something elegant, of good quality, easy to put on the walls (time is passing and it's a huge room with 3m high ceilings!!), and reasonably neutral so any pastoral family could fit their furniture in! There is a lovely rose around the hanging light and elegant cornices to match.

From L-R: Nathalie, Evelyne, Sil Ruddle who spent Christmas with us, me

We are very grateful to some members of our church who have spent hours helping us. And Sil, SIM missionary studying French before going out to serve in Benin, spent a number of days helping us as well. Hopefully, it was a welcome change for her being physical more than intellectual work! 

I cancelled most of December's rendez-vous to be available to help, and Pascal juggled work, visits and renovating until he became ill a few days ago. January is the same - no RDVs, just getting our stuff over to the new house as we finish the rooms. No kitchen until probably the end of February - it's ordered and delivered 8th Feb. We are installing it ourselves. It will be like a giant jigsaw puzzle!