We are both writing, painting, photographing and generally recharging our creative batteries.

Celyn is about to launch a new website selling her work, Scott is submitting photos to stock libraries and writing for his blogs.

This site is concerned with attitudes and lifestyles of people all over the world, we hope it will inspire people to live a simple life.

The artisan that will repair our roof has supplied us with a ‘Devis’ or estimate for repairing the damage to the roof on our house and on our barn, we have sent the estimate and photos off to the insurance company it is in their hands now.

Apparently the hail storms that do this kind of damage are rare in France, and like lightening unlikely to strike in the same place  twice.

The hail storms move in very specific bands often one half of a crop in a field will be totally destroyed the other half remaining undamaged.

Repairs on some roofs are under way already. Only one house in our village escaped with no damage.

This morning we discovered several holes in our roof and some interesting dents in the car. After examining the roof with binoculars we counted three large holes and several small ones. I managed to carry out some temporary repairs on our flat roof, the main roof will have to wait until the rain stops.

The insurance company phone is constantly engaged so we are not alone.

The weather here has finally changed from scorching heat with no rain to cloudy with no rain, our gardens and crops need rain. We are watering the majority of our crops by hand from the village stream almost every evening, it takes about an hour with loads of buckets, watering cans and lots of patience in the heat of summer in France.