How we got here

This house of my heart has been ours for two years today. What moving here has taught me, plus a recipe for yoghurt cake with honey roasted plums, and this week’s market haul.

The house, on that day in 2020 when we first went inside.

Two years ago today, Séan and I sat at the dining table in my parents’ house in County Durham in front of a large computer screen, my laptop open to one side. In one corner of the large screen, there were Séan and I, in another, our notaire (lawyer) in her office in Bessan, and in the other, the …