Posts by Benjamin Dickins

Another 2 weeks have passed since my last blog despite me saying that our good friends had left so we should be able to get back to some project work. The start of September is culturally the start of everything in France.  The start of a new school year; a new political year (which will…

And quick as a flash we’re in September.  How did that happen?! When I wrote my last blog, 2 weeks ago, I mentioned that we had just had some very good friends arrive with us for their summer hols and we may have lots of distractions.   The fact that there wasn’t a blog last week…

Re-reading the blog I wrote 2 weeks ago, I could almost copy and paste the first 5 paragraphs to summarise the last couple of weeks and explain why, despite my assertion in the final paragraph, I didn’t write a blog last Sunday. Our progress on a number of things however, has been hampered to some…

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,…