We all miss our young families back in the UK, I think that is natural.
We are lucky that ours all come out frequently but we are also lucky to have been surrounded by young people since arriving here.
We started out making friends with Nathalie from Caylus, Nathalie we will always love. She now has a shop at Caylus with a friend near the bar Bascule selling bio and regional products and home made delicacies.
We also have our adorable "ange"Laetitia who helps me with the household jobs. She has a youngster Margaux who is the same age as our youngest grandchild, so a firm friendship has been made there.
Then we have two young couples over the road, one with a young daughter and now expecting another child. We also have adorable couple Julia and Johan with baby Ayla, they have bought land over the road from us and Julia hopes to make a living growing medicinal herbs and in the summer giving donkey walks. Her partner is a bucheron and works very hard, long physical hours. We feel very much in the centre of these young people's lives, for example who needs a bricomarché when you have us! Oldies with all the tools and happy to lend. We get more back than we give though with friendly and interesting banter and French conversation lessons given by Julia have pushed my French language on amazingly.
For all these young people trying to make a living here in the country is not easy. Our four neighbours intelligent though they are, have opted out of office work and want to make a go of a country life.
We love them so much we will help where we can and we feel so lucky to be surrounded by these helpful young people. Malc told me this morning he mentioned to Johan we needed a big branch cutting off our willow, the next time he passed it had gone. Not only that he had chopped it into logs for the fire and carried it over to the two year wait log pile.
Have you any good neighbour stories to share?
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