What else have we been doing?

Plumbing and pigs have taken up the biggest chunks of time but we have had plenty of other stuff to do.
Including:

• Spending lots of time talking to orange and to Marcus (our helpful estate agent) trying to get phone and internet. We didn't believe it was going to be possible for a long time. But thankfully it is all sorted now and there is even a TV decoder that we are about to pick up too.
• Paper work (registering change of address for car, starting to register for health care, changing the insurance on the house to primary residence)
• Maintenance and cleaning (scything the drive and garden, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning - although you might not know it to look at the place)
• Delivery of uk stuff
• Speaking with an accountant to try to get to grips with tax and healthcare rules
• Meeting people (one of the neighbors came round to say hi and we have met a number of other British people who live quite close - obviously long term plan is to learn French but nice at the mo to have people to talk to who have done something similar to us)
• Pest and rodent control (not actually going that well as the mice won't get in to the traps or move out and ants keep invading. There were bats in the roof when we bought the place but they seem to have moved out.)
•  Exploring (we have been for a couple of walks and various drives around the local area. Probably our area of expertise is DIY shops that don't sell the right wood for pig houses but we are working on expanding this to more useful things)
• Shopping (we have bought an ice cream maker as it would obviously be impossible to live here without)
• Baking (cooking cakes in the bread maker - haven't tried it before and seems to work well, technically there is an oven on the gas cooker but looking at it it is more like a grill)
• Building some shelves in the kitchen to make it habitable in the mean time.