Renovation project - Welcomed home by the smell of rotting fish!!!!!!
The crossing was very good, and
the cabin was great. But maybe the time was not perfect, the ferry sailed at 11
pm and arrived at 7am. So both of us are knackered but as we come into Roscoff
the sun is shining and spring appears to have sprung in France.
We get to the house and it is so
good to be home I can’t wait to get in and start to unpack the car; we have somehow
managed to come back with the car loaded. When we sold our house in the UK we
sold it fully furnished and managed to leave everything that we didn’t want to
take with us, this meant that we had very little in comparison to most people
moving house. Friends in France used a Storage company for
their furniture and after six months managed to get it all over to France, that’s
when they realised just how much they had! But luckily we sorted the few boxes we
wanted to save at our friends on the farm; it would’ve been a different story
had we still had a house full of furniture to move with us. the barns are
fantastic but we were a bit concerned that the stuff may get damp, but it
appears to be fine, we’re really please we only stored the most important bits
(which is pretty much a few knick knacks and boxes of photo and kids
paintings!)
As we get out of the car John
notices that we had not shut the bedroom window, oops! We go into the house and
are met by the most horrendous smell! OMG has a cat got in? I go through every
room and cannot find the source. I know I emptied every bin and cleared all the
rubbish to prevent this from happening. John turns the electric on and I go to
put the few bits we bought on the way home in the fridge, this is when the
smell hits me like a base ball bat, the fridge still had food in it as did the
freezer, bugger fish and meat had defrosted and been left for a couple of weeks
festering, the smell has got into everything, well I say everything we only
have 2 chairs and everything is made of wood! I now spend the rest of the day
trying to get rid of the smell and thinking thank goodness we don’t have
furniture yet!
I can’t believe we forgot the
fridge when we turned the electric off, normally we wouldn’t do something so
stupid but as John doused the bedroom floor with wood treatment as we walked
out of the house we didn’t want to risk it dripping on to the fuse box which is
directly underneath
John spends a few hours in bed,
but I can’t sleep so the rest f the day is spent pottering around disinfecting
everything!
We have a number of people call in
to welcome us home and I am gutted, I would love to see everybody but I am so
embarrassed by the smell I don’t let anybody stay.
It’s still good to be home
though!!
Nice article.. thanks for sharing..
ReplyDeleteOh no!! That is a nightmare indeed!! Hope you got rid of the smell..
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