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Happy Easter.  We hope that you are enjoying the long Easter weekend especially with such fabulous weather.  Today we have rewarded ourselves with a day off and enjoyed a cheeky drink on the terrace of Au Lac overlooking the Lac du Drennec in 20+ degree heat but we have had a productive week. A couple…

Last week’s blog spoke about a weather-affected ‘bitty’ week of jobs with a lot of weeding having been done.  This week has been very similar. It ended saying that some of the gardening, principally continuing to clear the old chicken run, was dependent on finding a new fork that I liked.  I have – inevitably…

At the end of last week’s blog I said that I would update something major in Garratt’s life and not his weird, and you’d have thought very uncomfortable, choice of seating position in an old stone sink outside my new man shed! Two and a half years ago while at the annual Horse Fair in…

Apologies again for not posting a blog last week.  I was recovering from a particularly nasty stomach bug which laid me low for a number of days and meant I was unable to make any significant progress for the best part of a week.  Thankfully, that week the weather was pretty damp and unpleasant so…

As I predicted in last week’s blog this week has been spent on the same 2 principal tasks of filling the man shed and completing our paperwork for our Carte de Sejour application. The weather has been pretty awful all week and very windy.  That said, Storm Gareth didn’t cause as much destruction as we…

Last week has been one of 2 activities.  The minor (unfortunately) was in the man shed where progress continues albeit slowly while the major was administratively focussed. Man shed work was principally me building a work bench.  With the shed having been emptied the previous week I was able to map out the interior and…

Apologies for no blog last week.  As previous years, we took the opportunity of the quiet season here to go back to the UK and walk in the Lake District.  While we said 2018 would be our last Lakes visit as we want to explore more of France, this year we were invited to spend…

Why is it that I make these wild claims in my blogs about work I expect to complete during the week? Again, last week, I finished the blog with the claim that, by now, the shed would be complete and ready to stock.  Of course it isn’t. However, I did also promise some photos of…

Where has January gone?!  It seems like only a few days ago we had the Christmas decorations up.  Thankfully however, we have avoided the very cold snap and snow that we see the UK has been experiencing last week and today has been almost warm. Last week’s blog was the first of the year that…