It’s been a long, chilly and bleeding wet winter, so it was great to be in France when the heat...
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15Apr
The French House 13
Visitors help out and more unexpected repairs crop up, but everything stops for aperitifs.
The French House 12
Summer's in the air as another friend comes to stay, and what exactly goes on in the forests of France of a summer evening?
The French House 11
Parents arrive for a visit and Mark shows them the hotspots of Angouleme and then a weekend in the French capital, Paris, before heading back to the country house for a very important launch party.
The French House 10
The sun comes out in the pristine Poitou countryside, but there's more work inside the house for Mark, who also gets a taste of what it's really like babysitting somebody else's kid.
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