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I finished last week’s blog saying that we were expecting a busy week as it is the start of the Toussaint holiday in France.  It turned out to be so and we were delighted to be completely full last night with 16 people, our maximum capacity, across the 4 gîtes.  Today Stable is changing occupants…

My last blog said that the preceding couple of weeks weren’t perhaps the most productive of my time but that David had a week off work, from Brest at least, so I would have a work mate and we may be able to get more achieved. I’m glad I said ‘may’ and not ‘would’!  Who…

So, having said in my last blog, posted 2 weeks ago after a couple of week’s hiatus, that I would get back into the habit of writing a weekly blog.  However, it did have the caveat that it was ‘assuming we don’t get diverted to Au Lac’.  You will have seen there was no blog…

Apologies that it has been three weeks since posting a blog – it seems like so long ago!  At least there is lots to cover as it has been a reasonably productive period at least the last 2 weeks have.  The first week less so as I was struck by a pretty nasty bug that…

Apologies for not posting a blog last week – will let you know why later. It has been an odd couple of weeks in terms of work – possibly not the busiest or most productive – and there aren’t too many major things to share with you. I have continued to stain Grange although the…

Last week’s blog stated that I was focussed on 2 tasks – hedge cutting and staining Grange.  It was the latter that was the continued focus for this week and still it isn’t finished! I know it seems like it is taking an awfully long time to do something fairly simple, and to be fair…

Last week’s blog said that we had started 2 major projects which desperately needed doing.  It is both of these that I have been continuing with this week – although neither are actually finished! Earlier in the week I continued with the hedging which is very nearly complete.  I was fortunate in that the weather…

I can’t believe that my last blog, 2 weeks ago, was written the day we completed Priory.  It already seems like so long ago …  Thankfully, both families who have stayed in Priory in the last 2 weeks have absolutely loved what we have done and have left us some lovely comments.  The family who…

Well we’ve made it.  We are both a bit shattered but at 10 am today our first guests arrived in the newly finished, revamped, redecorated and refurbished Priory.  And, while I may be a little biased, it looks amazing. In my last blog, I said that I wasn’t panicking about getting things complete on time,…

When I wrote last week’s blog I said that we had a leaky shower which needed to be resolved quickly if we were to stand any chance of getting Priory complete, and that I wasn’t panicking (at that stage) that we would be able to finish on time. Our plumber came back last Monday to…