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Home thoughts from abroad.................................

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It seems that this year it has been feast or famine for my Normandy Life blog with more famine than feasting going on.

Dear reader that is all about to change, first the latest news from the Presbytère. After many months of preparation we finally put the house on the market in April.


However, so far there hasn't been any interest and as we know that the house market here in rural Normandy is sluggish at best we are prepared to wait for the right buyer to come along.


All the photographs in this post are of our French nest all fluffed and ready for a new owner.



In the meantime we recently spent 10 days back home in England scouting out a new place to retire to, we had a lovely time and I have many treats to share with you in future posts.


Such as Derbyshire's Chatsworth House, home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and Tissington Hall, a Jacobean house built in 1609 which has been lived in ever since by one family only: the FitzHerbert's.

Also, Shibden Hall situated in beautiful Calderdale, Yorkshire built by prosperous wool merchant William Otes in 1420.
Besides these stately homes there will be simpler tales of pretty villages such as Alstonefield and the plague village of Eyam in Derbyshire and Haworth, Yorkshire, home to the Bronte sisters ; churches; cottages; B&B's good and bad (!) and scenery to die for.




Hope you'll come back again soon for my virtual guided tour of two very beautiful English counties that you may never have visited before.

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