Bertie the Bat and the Butterfly Sun Lounger - @ourfrenchrenovation

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Our French Renovation
We always wanted a Place in the Sun and although we weren't quite escaping to a Chateau, what attracted us to this particular Grande Maison was it's 3 storeys and the vaulted wine caves beneath.
With all that floor space combined you have nearly 300 square meters.
We had two caves and a boiler room. They hadn't been used for thirty years and the last occupants were bats and owls. The previous occupants before that were probably either donkeys, goats or chickens.
The French use large piles of sand rich soil to bury root vegetables as a means of storage over winter. Whilst digging out the floors I found large quantities of what look like dried swede, beetroot, and turnip. I wasn't about to eat them but considering they had been, stored for since the mid 90's they were in incredible condition.
The floor of the caves turned out to be solid concrete; which was incredible news. We also found that the upstairs bathroom sink and bath (currently disconnected), simply drained into a sand pit in the corner of the cave!
Underneath the cave floor we also found a small 50cm wide, slow moving stream.
The hardest and hottest room to clear out was the room with the boilers in. This room was full of 31 wheel barrow loads of rocks and soil. France was in a Red Alert heat wave and it was a sauna inside.
The soil was used to create a level area in the garden for a bench. The bench originally belonged to Mark's mum who died Oct 16 2021. Fully restored with new mahogany from a old railwayman's hut and inlaid roses this is a Memorial Bench to Mark Mum and Mandy's Dad Tony.
Within minutes of placing the bench on it's new site overlooking the large pond in our garden, butterflies settled on it and started to stretch their wings.

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