Posts by Benjamin Dickins

During the last week, France has raised significant concerns that 2023 will be as dry as the record-breaking droughts experienced last year.  The recent winter has been the driest France has experienced in the last 60 years. Météo France said that between 21 January and 21 February there had been no precipitation at all in…

A couple of weeks have passed since my last blog, and, from the list of possible reasons when I don’t write, this time we have been away – again, I hear you howl! I know it has only been a couple of weeks since we had our BIG adventure in Argentina, but, obviously, we don’t…

Last week was the first, of what I hope won’t be many weeks, when I didn’t write a blog for 2023.  Apologies. You may recall some of the reasons why I don’t write a blog and last week it fell very much into the, I haven’t progressed enough to show any progress.  Which, when you…

Short and (hopefully) sweet this week! I said in last week’s blog that I hadn’t started taking down the Christmas decorations as we still had guests stay with us until last Saturday.  Thankfully, it seems that the French don’t have the same tradition of having to take decorations down before Twelfth Night to avoid bad…

In last week’s blog I resolved (the most appropriate word considering what date it was) to be better at writing my regular blog, 2022 having been fairly poor.  So, 2 weeks in I can say I am doing better. One resolution fulfilled at least! This week’s blog however, won’t be especially long, and I am…

We hope you have all had a very pleasant Christmas doing whatever it is you like doing with people you enjoy doing it with!  We had a good Christmas here at Kergudon, David’s Dad joined us which made up for last year’s travel interruptions, and we have had some lovely guests in all of our…

Last Sunday’s blog said that my focus for this week would be more decorating to ensure that all our Christmas guests have a magical time – and that is pretty much all I’ve been doing and I’m still not finished! In previous years, we have watched some of the television programmes when UK stately homes…

I know that the correct expression is ‘It’s beginning to look A LOT like Christmas’ but I can’t say that is the case here yet – but we are making progress. In last week’s blog (and amazingly I am managing to blog on 2 consecutive Sundays!) I said that we were delighted to have every…

This hasn’t been a great year for me reliably writing a weekly blog!  Looking back, the last blog I wrote did say how horrified I was with how quickly 2022 seems to be passing as we were about to enter November.  As things turned out, I didn’t write anything all month. Previously, I have said…

This year is passing alarmingly quickly!  It has been another 3 weeks since my last blog and we’re in November on Tuesday. To be honest, the week following my last blog I was feeling a little under the weather for a few days so not much was progressed and ever since then I have spent…