Posts by Benjamin Dickins

I ended last week’s blog by saying that the priority had to be completing and rebuilding Hayloft as it hadn’t received any of my attention the preceding week. I am delighted to say that we achieved it, and this time we didn’t leave it quite so late as is our past practice, so that we…

The last blog ended by saying there was lots to do in the week, what it didn’t say was that I had started to feel the beginning of a miserable cold ☹.  That cold arrived with full intensity by the time I had woken up on Monday so it was a pretty miserable day for…

I mentioned at the end of last week’s blog that the forecast was for good weather during the week which would allow me to progress with my painting and would have allowed our tiler the ideal opportunity to lay some paving slabs on the pool terrace. I did manage to get my painting progressed and…

I cannot believe that tomorrow is the end of the first quarter – where has this year gone?! Thankfully, the spring has been considerably drier than last year and we have managed to achieve a lot more than we had 12 months ago.  Last week proved one of the most productive weeks of the year…

I said at the end of last week’s blog that the forecast looked good and I will have to split my time between continuing Hayloft’s refurbishment and starting to get on top of the garden. Thankfully, it did seem that spring had sprung at the start of the week and my first task was outside. …

My last blog (2 week ago (again!)) said that I was in a position to start applying paint in Hayloft as we continue with its refurbishment.  And over the last couple of weeks I actually have managed to do that but, as of last Sunday, it was only the ceiling which didn’t make great pictures…

My last blog, 2 weeks ago, said that we were focusing on the refurb of Hayloft and that has been my principal task.  In the blog, I said that the intention was to do all the preparation prior to starting to repaint.  That preparation has taken longer than anticipated! You will have seen from one…

This week will be a pretty short blog although that’s not because we have been idle! I mentioned last week that we are starting the year with a new project which was giving our couples’ gîte, Hayloft, a bit of TLC, and this has been the focus of our major efforts. When we arrived in…

My last blog was some weeks ago and, generally when there is a gap at this time of year, it means that we have taken some time for ourselves and have been on a bit of a holiday. This year we did almost exactly what we had two year’s ago and drove south to the…

Last week’s blog was relatively short as my sole focus had been to de-rig the Christmas decorations.  This week’s will be shorter still as that has remained my principal effort. This time last week, I had cleared our own house and had almost finished those in Granary.  I said that it was my hope that…