Yvan Delahaye and Jean-Marc Adeline-Bourgarel of the Itinerant School for Drystone building (ELIPS, http://www.elipsecoledelapierreseche.com) completed, with some help along the way, the clover leafed courtyard paving. Meanwhile winter slipped into spring. 
Yvan gets help from a young garden designer, Anne Lise Monnet, accompanied by her month old baby and her companion Pierre who cuts stones for the paving http://www.far-paysagistes.com/.
Meanwhile, visitors arrived from the garden club of Saint Pierreville, among them Annie Mirabel who, wiht her husband Bernard, has long had an artists’ residence there, La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, 07190 Saint Pierreville, and Mme Dominique Thibaud from Lagorce, who runs the Mirabilia gallery www.galeriemirabilia.fr. . Both of these are recommended stops, “Echappées” along the new art trail put in place by the Natural Regional Park of the Monts d’Ardèche, to be opened this summer. (See the PNR FAcebook page for details or their website at http://www.parc-monts-ardeche.fr/actions-du-parc-en-faveur-du-territoire/le-partage-des-eaux.html.
Meanwhile…spring broke out all of a sudden. Plum trees bloomed to frame Marc Nucera’s bench:
Yvan and Marc set the bench more firmly on parts of the original acacia trunk that served in its making, and then tested it, making fun of the photographer: 
before leaving, they finished installing two stone benches, using old stones left from a staircase dismantled around 1978…
Elsewhere, Jean Marc Rieu began burying a pipe to link the cistern built into the house to the water system used for the potager, while Wim Florquin extended the pergola of the swimming pool to provide more shade in summer.
Indoors, the main sitting room became a music room with the addition of an electric piano, which Yvan installed for me and future visitors.