This is my first real contribution to the Blog. I am listening to my latest favorite singer KT Tunstall, and am ready to go. We spent New Year dancing tot this, with my sister who visited us from Toronto, dancing to this, which was part of a telecom advertisement in France when we lived there, which is why I realise it is so familiar, called Black Horse and the Cherry Tree for anyone who is interested.
I truly feel that the hardest part was leaving our life in France, and the friends we made there, as opposed to leaving the long commuting life we led in the UK. What has made that easier is the constant communication by letter and email. in French I might add, and has helped with one of my prime aims to keep up the French language skills learned living in France.
My favorite new experience since moving to Cape Breton has been Ice Skating. For Someone who tried it once at 18 and now at 51 is mastering the art, it feels like we are becoming a part of the culture here. Ice Skating is truly part of who you are in the community, and everyone from all ages talks to you, and encourages you with advice and support. To have a young child of 6 or 7 tell you are doing good, well what can you say to that.. and then the teenager asking where you are from, and then your doing real well for a beginner.. what can you say to that. BUT then I watch the 3 or 4 year olds that are pretty much speed skating, and ask the Dads what I have to do to achieve that does get some laughs.
Cape Breton for me has to be the place to live, I love it here, it is so green, and I truly find it a wonderful place. What I love about it is the fact that it is a small community, where local people call by and tell you who they are and how they relate to the house you live in, and who lived in it before, and to welcome you. Having said that it was part of what was part of our life in rural France. We do have wonderful neighbours who have done everything to incorporate us into the community.
And so to the Master plan to build our Passive Solar House: and I will quite confidently say that this is moving along quite nicely. We are continuing our investigations with the realtor, as to the work that has been done before. We just have to revist the site and measure and re-measure again in order to confirm that our house plan will fit on the site.
What we do need to do is compare those measurements to the Building Regulations to see if we can build the house we want on the land available. We do realise that this site is perfect, as to being South Facing Absolutley, so we will need to make adjustements to the plan to make our house fit, if the original plan does not.
What we have also had to think about is the temporary housing while we are working on the house, as in for the weekends, but we realise that it may cost too much to consider that option. The lot that we are favouring is only fifteen minutes to our house, so it may not be necessary to go down that road.
So now I am listening to Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls - which I am not.. but a good set of lyrics none the less.
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