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317from selling the cheese by health and safety legislation, but I expect they carried on with it for themselves.We had taken our caravan over with us and had left it in the campsite at Cerilly which was about 3 miles away. Once everything was finished,we collected the caravan intending to put it in the barn and have a good look around. Believe it or not, there were some bits of the property that we had not seen. However, we firstly found that there was some farm machinery inside the barn and so we could not get the caravan in.Somehow, the chap who owned the machinery was contacted and he came and moved it. Then the lady who lived next door, Louise RobinChallon, came and invited us to lunch. We felt it would be considered a bit rude not to go and so we went around. She said it was going to be rabbit which horrified Gabby. As a result, Gabby was given a whole tin of Foire gras. She would have been better off with the rabbit which is just like chicken. Louise was elderly and lived in Paris. Her house was very nice, but she was only there in the summer. She came down by train and then picked up her small car which she kept near the station. After lunch and a quick look around, we packed up and drove home.We kept the caravan in the barn when we were not there but in the summer towed it out into the field. At one point we found that a cross beam was in the way and as it did not appear to have any useful function, I sawed it off. As I got through, there was a huge bang and the saw cut opened out to about a centimetre. Clearly this was holding the walls together a bit. There was nothing I could do at the time, but once I got home, I had 2 metal plates made that fitted over the top part of the joist and wired them together to hold the wall in place. It was well tensionedwith a screwjack, it certainly did the job and was still in place when we sold the house some 15 years later