The couple, Bernie and Caroline, were away in The Canary Islands soaking up sun (what a life) so we never met them. Sharon, another English woman had bought the farmhouse next door … a grand old two storey stone house and accompanying large stone barn where she kept her bike and did her laundry. She moved permanently to France with her teenage son, Lloyd, who loved riding his small motor scooter around the property, and to school in a nearby town.