All settled in our new house, still no bed though. The main disadvantage to the new house: We are walking distance from the train station. The wisdom of a country that wants everyone to take the train instead of drive means that the train stations charge an exorbitant amount of money to park in the car park, plus your ticket. Solution? Everyone parks on the street. Solution of the County Council? Restrict parking on the street closest to the station-in the form of you get a ticket if you are parked there between the hours of 11:30 am -12:30 pm M-F. So if you commute you can't very well come back and move your car. Side effect-cars just park somewhere else...further up the road...by our house. Try getting out of your drive when you have cars on either side and one directly across.
Or you can have a problem like today...a large tow truck (lorry) was parked across from my house to retrieve my car for repairs (France accident), there were also cars on either side of my drive. Then the poor local farmer decided to drive down the road to get to his field.
