Posts by Benjamin Dickins

Well, we made it.  And, unusually for us, we completed the work the day before the gîte’s first guests arrived! In last week’s blog I was reasonably confident that we were well on-track to have Granary ready without having to work through the night at any stage – which we did for its first refurbishment…

The focus for the last 7 days has been, as you’d expect, progressing Granary. In last week’s blog I had hoped that, by now, we would have completed both the kitchen and bathroom.  Unfortunately, neither have been finished, which is disappointing but, thankfully, not disastrous for the timeline.  I have been able to progress other…

Where has this week gone?! At the end of last week’s blog I had said that we should be able to make some additional great leaps forward in Granary this week.  Looking back, we have certainly made progress but can I say there have been great leaps?  Perhaps not. However, we have continued with putting…

Last Sunday’s blog ended with the hope that this week we would actually start putting things back on the walls of Granary and stop striping and scraping them off (or scaping as I appear to have written!  Note to self – must proofread!) Thankfully, we have done just that, and it has made a big…

Happy Easter or, with our activities of the last week, should that be Merry Christmas?  I’ll explain later. Last week’s blog explained that my focus was realising the Six ‘P’s of work to ensure we get the best result possible.  This week, I have found a seventh ‘P’ (and I’ve used the family-friendly one rather…

One of the many tedious and trite ‘Management’ mantras that everyone is likely to be aware of, is the Six ‘P’s.  These, with one ‘R’, sum up my activities of the last week.  I apologise that there are very few pictures however, so I will keep this brief! The last blog mentioned that there is…

My last blog was after an extended period away which, I mentioned usually means that we have been away from Kergudon.  The absence of a blog last Sunday was not however as we’d been travelling (twice in a month would be excessive), but because we had been making the most of the amazing weather we…

It has been exactly a month since I last wrote a blog – sorry!  Of course, this means that the Granary renovations are now all complete and the gîte is looking fantastic again.  Er, not quite! As previously when I haven’t blogged, we have been away on a little break.  This time, as previous years…

I didn’t post a blog last week as I didn’t think that there had been so much progress to update and, again, certainly nothing that made for attractive pictures.  I’m not sure there is much different this week! Pascal has continued to work in Granary although, as is the nature of what he’s doing, there…