Posts by Benjamin Dickins

Since last week’s blog the focus has been on continuing the garage clearout and preparing gîtes for guests. We continue to be encouraged by the number of guests who are joining us for a spring getaway as last week Priory and Hayloft were occupied and they remain so for another week with Granary having guests…

Summary of our activities and progress at Kergudon Gites over the last 2, cold, weeks.

Last week’s blog said that I had been spending hours splitting the vast amounts of waste wood that have been accumulating in our garage bays as a result of all of our projects.  This had the advantage of clearing the garage while keeping me dry and not churning up the lawn too much transporting the…

For the last week both I, and the weather, have been predominantly doing one thing.  For me it has been to continue clearing the garage bays.  For the weather it is raining, almost constantly. There had been a few wet weeks prior to Christmas when we felt that there was more standing water on the…

Last week’s blog said that after a slow start to the year we planned to kick back into action with our extensive work list this week.  And we have. The first tasks have been to do some of the essential things required before we can actually move onto the projects themselves and that is sorting…

Last week’s blog said that we (I) had made a slow start to 2021 and hadn’t made much (any) progress on our long list of projects and things to do.  This week I have progressed … none. Again. Unlike previous years there is no major task to be progressed immediately.  Last year we had the…

Looking back over the last week I have to admit that we’re making a slow start to 2021.  That is perhaps not ideal when we have a long list of projects to accomplish and things we want to progress.  I haven’t spoken about my ‘To Do’ list for some time but, rest assured it continues…

Well, that was quite a year. My last blogs of the year, or sometimes the first, have been a summary of the major things we have achieved in the previous 12 months.  I do this more to remind Dave and I of what we have done but hope they are of interest to others.  I…

I have to say, I am surprised I am able to write a blog today.  Having seen the recent forecasts and the predicted strength of the winds we should have experienced in Storm Bella, I had every expectation that we would have lost at least power if not just internet in the carnage that could…