Posts by Benjamin Dickins

I can’t believe either that we have already entered August, or that I haven’t written a blog for 3 weeks with my last being on French Fête Nationale.  This will be pretty short too but normal service will be resumed. Generally when I don’t write a blog it is for one of a few reasons. …

Well that has been quite a dramatic couple of weeks for both the UK and France politically, leading to one very late night / early morning, but at least there have been some fabulous sporting distractions taking place to take our minds off global events. I can’t say with much honesty that we have had…

At the end of my blog last Sunday I said that we had lots of plans for the coming week but we’ll have to see what would be achieved. In the end I have been busy but, as is often the case, the job I started which I hoped would take 3 days, ended up…

At the end of my last blog, 2 weeks ago, I said that the weather was going to revert to its more usual 2024 pattern of showers and below average temperatures.  So it turned out and the week before also reverted to an earlier pattern of not being the most productive of the year, but…

While we don’t usually refer to time by the weeks of the year, apparently we have now finished week 23 of 2024.  I think I can say that last week has been the most productive week of the year so far and it’s only taken us 22 weeks to get here! The reason for this…

Last week’s blog predicted a number of things, some of which came true! The first was that we were expecting a delivery of breeze blocks on Monday for the team to continue with the pool build.  They duly arrived and the project continues to progress. The breeze blocks were laid over a couple of, very…

Apologies for not posting a blog last week.  The previous blog said that we were expecting Dave’s aunt and uncle which would lead to a sociable, if not very productive, week. The not so productive bit turned out to be true and, to a lesser extent, the social bit – at least for me.  Sadly,…

I finished my last blog saying that the weather forecast was looking good and that it would be a productive week.  Thankfully one of these was true … We, and more importantly our guests, have enjoyed the hottest and driest week of the year so far, with temperatures reaching well into the 20s. We have…

Again, no blog for 2 weeks and for much the same reason as before.  We have been busy but on things that either take a bit more time to achieve, or that don’t make for great images. The advantage of the last couple of weeks however, is that the weather has been much kinder to…

I didn’t post a blog last week as, while we had been busy, our work had been lots of small but necessary tasks that don’t make for great pictures.  To some degree the same is true of this week too but I have been able to do a couple of things where you can see…