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Love at First Sight

I'm not a big believer in love at first sight. It's one of those romantic notions which rarely comes to anything.

When we left England last week, we had the offer of a house to rent. We had about fifteen minutes to view it on the internet before our connection disappeared. It looked good, and the rental price for the winter was excellent.

"All very well", we thought, "so what's the catch?" As we drove nearer to the village of Persac where we were to meet British estate agent Chris Manning, (whose facilities I am using right now to post this blog) we passed a detour, which took us past the biggest and most scary looking nuclear electricity station I have ever seen.

"Right". We decided. "Are we going to risk living within a hundred kilometres of this installation? No we are not." Decision made. We will break the news gently, but we won't be taking up the offer of house rental in the nearby mediaeval town of Montmorillon.

Update on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 09:13PM by

Colin Morley (editor)

I have just logged on to this page after a couple of days and realise that I have posted the full article in First Post. I apologise to those of you who must have wondered why the story ended half way through! It was late at night. I had consumed several glasses of good red wine..... see the completed article at First Post

Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 10:19PM by

Colin Morley (editor) |

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