• 9.Breeze-Block Gray

    9.Breeze-Block Gray

    Everything is taking shape; it’s not all smooth sailing, but the sense of adventure remains strong.

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  • 5.The cold shower

    5.The cold shower

    Evening after evening on the table: the grange, reimagined in lines and measures

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  • 4. What was already here …

    4. What was already here …

    Outside, the Périgord can be hard and dry in the summer.

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  • 3.It would be Loubejac

    3.It would be Loubejac

    It was raining when we pulled up. Not hard, but steadily — that fine grey the Périgord Noir can draw over itself in March.

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  • 2.Nine hundred kilometres of mistrust

    2.Nine hundred kilometres of mistrust

    The searching happened in the evening, once the house had gone to sleep.

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  • 1.Long before the Grange

    1.Long before the Grange

    It didn’t start with a stone, not with a plan, not with a bank account

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