Posts by Benjamin Dickins

This week’s blog is similar in content to last in that our electrician has spent most of the week pressing on with the Granary re-wiring, and I have been working on various other projects as I can’t get into the gîte to start redecorating.  It is also similar in that the photos aren’t wildly inspiring(!)…

Last week’s blog said that our electrician would be arriving on Monday to start the major re-wiring work.  He did, in the afternoon, and then promptly disappeared for 2 days!  In his defence, Monday was more discussion between us about what we want to achieve and how, so that he could then put together he…

Last week’s blog stated that we had started the year’s major project which is a refurbishment of our family gîte, Granary.  It said that the risk of projects like these was that they were prone to mission creep as you discover additional problems when you rip out kitchens and bathrooms. One we discovered 2 weeks…

While last week’s blog was a summary of things we had achieved in 2021, it mentioned that we had a number of projects planned for this year.  The first, and probably the largest, is a refurbishment of Granary similar to that we undertook in Priory in 2020. Granary is one of our 2 family gîtes. …

Normally, I would use either the first or last blog of the year to round up what we had achieved in the preceding 12 months – as much to remind David and I what we have done as anything else.  As I haven’t done that yet, I hope you don’t mind if I do so…

Happy New Year. We hope you all had very happy Christmases and enjoyed whatever it was you chose to do, if anything, to see in the New Year. In past years, my first blog of January has been a summary of everything we had achieved in the previous 12 months.  This year, I will delay…

I can’t believe that this is the last Sunday, and so my last blog, before we arrive at Christmas.  Where has this year gone? I finished my last blog stated that the weather forecast was looking amazing for Christmas and so I should be able to make lots of progress outside.  It has been absolutely…

I had probably better start with an explanation of my title.  Gutted is not a word I like (unless you are speaking of preparing good fish for dinner) as it is generally associated with losing in certain sports which we don’t follow. However, it is possibly appropriate as to how we feel right now as…

For the first time in weeks, I have managed to write a blog a week after the previous one!  Sadly, our holiday is already a long distant memory and certainly the barmy warm weather is!  I can’t believe that we are already in December however, on the upside it does mean we can get our…