Posts by Benjamin Dickins

At the end of my last blog, I said that David was off for a second week and the forecast was looking good so we should have another couple of productive weeks and that I would update last Sunday.  We managed the former but you will have noticed, I failed to do the latter! Mostly…

At the end of last week’s blog I said that I had a couple of plans for activities I wanted to achieve in the week.  I didn’t mention that Dave had taken a week’s leave from the gym so was also at home and able to assist with some larger tasks I couldn’t do on…

Each week in my blogs I’m pleased that I’m able to say that we have completed the next big step in the pool house.  This week is no exception and, arguably, we have completed 2 big steps. Admittedly, the first was less than a day’s work as all the preparation had happened during the construction…

We have had a fairly productive week but managed to balance it with a really relaxed weekend. At the end of last week’s blog, I said the forecast was for the first fabulous week of spring weather and, amazingly for some of the forecasters’ accuracy, that is what we enjoyed. I also said that I…

A short one this week and not so many pictures – sorry! In last week’s blog, I mentioned I had one day of work in the pool house before I could start painting the undercoats and making better progress, and I planned to do that when our guests left us on Tuesday. Before I could…

It has been far longer than I’d hoped since I wrote my last blog and there is far less to show you as progress too. This isn’t that we’ve been idle but more as a result of being far busier at this time of year than previously in the gîtes and, having guests that want…

I started off last week’s blog saying that it would be a short one as I had been focussed on a single task – plasterboarding.  This one is much the same and so the photos haven’t changed that much! Last week’s blog said that I had completed about 80% of the job and I had…

Today’s will be a short blog as most of my productive time has been focussed on a single task which, thankfully, is the one that I said I would be progressing in last week’s blog – plaster boarding the interior of the pool house. The week began with work done principally by someone else, but…

Last week, I suggested that I might have some excuses for not starting back with project work during the week however, no excuses required and the project work has begun again despite having experienced one of the wettest weeks I can recall since we moved here. That said, thankfully the week started dry and allowed…

Having promised to write blogs more frequently than my average last year, and not to have periods of 4 weeks without writing anything, I thought I’d better write something today having already missed last week! I made a number of statements in my last blog for what I would do and what we were hoping…