A weekend of shopping..........

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Hope that you all had a fabulous Mother's day and got very spoilt yesterday.

It is 8h40 in the morning here in France and our French electrician has come and installed the cable to connect our new oven - very efficient, I think.

Our poorly plasterer dragged himself from his death bed and worked the whole weekend, so a big merci beaucoup to Mr. T, your efforts are much appreciated.

Our weekend was another busy one as whilst the plasterer was doing his thing, we were busy sourcing items for our new kitchen/dining area at Maison No. 20.

You may think that this is a straight forward enough task but in France, shopping takes on a whole different meaning.

For example we went to a large shop that sells building materials etc and wanted to order a shower fitting.

We already knew from previous experience that these have to be ordered in as they are expensive so they order on demand.

Fortunately Saturday was a public holiday hence most of the locals were sleeping in and the shops were relatively quiet.

I manage to find a sales assistant and tell him what we want.

I am then taken to a very upmarket area with high stools and computer. We go through the usual formalities, name......spell name.......such a pretty name.......where do you come from....NZ - that is a long way.......had some friends that visited Australia and New Zealand......it is a beautiful part of the world.......where do you live in France........do you like it?..etc.

As you can tell from the above, buying one object takes a while hence if you have many items to buy and all of which require a visit to a different shop, you are in for a long day.

Our next call was a fabulous shop called Castorama which sells pretty much every thing that you need to renovate/build/decorate a house.

This is where I bought two of the hanging lights that you see in the photo above. As soon as I saw them, I knew that I had to have them.

Would you believe that they are Danish, I googled the brand "Nordlux"and found the most fabulous lighting website so will have bookmarked this site for future use.

They have a fabulous range of lighting, all of which is simple and chic in design.

Today I am expecting a package to arrive from America so am very excited as it is something that I wanted from the minute that I saw it and it is very fabulous and oh so french....

Back later, here's wishing you all a happy week/Je reviendrai plus tard, je vous souhaite à tous une semaine heureux,

L x