It's been another day ...

 where we have made huge strides. We've also done a fair bit of work too.

This morning while Liz put the second coat of paint on the first half of the living room, Terry and I concreted the terrace outside the front and the side of the apartment. We cracked on at it at quite a pace, fixing some simple shuttering and then me mixing while Terry spread and tamped. It was all done by lunchtime and for an encore I filled in the spaces on the back terrace where the shuttering had been.

After lunch, while Liz and Terry sorted out what needed moving from up here, I went downstairs into the garage and began getting the stuff ready to throw away. Terry came down to help me later on and now Caliburn is chock-full to the roof of rubbish for the tip. I really can't imagine just what I was doing with half of the stuff in there - I really can't.

Anyway, by tomorrow lunchtime it will all be history.

Once it's all away I can load up Caliburn with more stuff to move to the Auvergne. There's a meeting of CREFAD - the organisation in the Auvergne that helps people set up small businesses - on Tuesday evening. They are discussing self-employment and how to register for this new minimalist self-employment scheme, and I have been invited to speak at it. Shameless self publicist that I am, I'm not going to miss out on some free publicity and so I'll be there, hopefully. It means I have a good reason to go there with a van full of stuff.