Cleaning our new house

It was time to head back to Venelles to clean our new house ahead of the removal date and to hopefully get some broadband fitted.

We took un aspirateur, une pelle à poussière, une serpillière, and lots of cleaning products to tackle a house which is really quite dirty.

When we arrived we spotted this at the gate.

Then we got to work, cleaning the walls, toilets, bathrooms, bedrooms, stairs, windows, kitchen – the lot – even la piscine.

I scrubbed at the tide mark around the pool

Cath got the bathrooms looking much better

The weather wasn’t great – it was chucking it down all day. So we concentrated on putting some elbow grease into years of limescale in the toilets and rubbing dirt, grease and crayon off the walls.

It now looks a lot better – even though some walls are still a bit of a mess because of bad paint jobs in the past.

Unfortunately the broadband wasn’t sorted – the technician came but a mix up with where to connect the cables meant they have to come back next Tuesday.

At lunchtime we went to a lovely bistro in Venelles and I celebrated our hard work with a lovely desert.