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It`s quiz time. What do you imagine these objects are? They were found in our building when we first moved here.  Give up?  Well I`ll tell you. They are a pair of leather gaiters as worn by farmers yonks ago.
  We have always found that when we buy a house in the UK there is always something worth-while  abandoned by the previous owner if, it`s only exotic plants in the garden. In our Plymstock house the ex-owner was a deep-sea diver and we proffed a case of wet suits of impressive thickness. However the wily French make a clean sweep and you`re lucky if they leave the light bulbs. Even things that in England would be Buildings or Fixtures and Fittings are regarded as Contents and moved out. When we viewed this house we admired a small enameled solid fuel stove in the kitchen only to be told by the Immobilier that it belonged to the vendors We subsequently bought it very cheaply but it was a surprise nevertheless.
  I think perhaps it`s a question of patrimoine dear  to the heart of all French people  One of the items that
WAS  left in an obscure outbuilding was a sort of wooden plough with an iron-shod plough-share designed to be pulled by a horse between the rows of vines. It was very worm-eaten and of no possible use or ornament, and we thought that even the vendor had no further use for it. However a few years later, after the funeral of the vendor, a lovely old chap, his son came by and was interested in seeing round the old place again.  We had thrown the plough on our `to go to tip`  heap, but he was aghast at the thought and gladly took up the ruin in the boot of his smart car, to the barely suppressed horror of his wife! Goodness knows where he put it in his very posh bungalow, I expect he`s falling over it to this day!