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Firstly, my apologies for not posting a blog last week.  Secondly, additional apologies as this blog is likely to be pretty short as well! The reason for both is that the last 2 weeks have not seen as much progress as previous weeks, and not on things that make for good photos, and last Sunday…

The title of this week’s blog was chosen for a number of reasons.  One is that, as I mentioned at the end of the last blog, the weather has now broken from the fantastic period of sunshine and blue skies that we had been enjoying.  In fact, the forecast has been very variable all week…

Despite saying in my last blog that this week’s major task would be to start clearing the old car park to create the new petanque pitch, I haven’t yet made a start on it! Having focussed previously on completing the wall alongside the man shed, this week meant that I had to focus on other…

As last week, we feel like we are making really good progress on a number of tasks and charging (relatively!) through the list of jobs to do and are ticking them off.  This has been helped in no small part by the AMAZING weather we have enjoyed for the last 3 weeks which, as long…

Looking back on last week it has been busy, both in terms of guests in the gîtes and work, and we have benefitted from (whisper it quietly) decent spring weather.  Even David made the comment today that this spring has been one when we have been able to tick off a number of projects. I…

Work at the start of the week was focussed on starting to prepare all of our gîtes to accept guests yesterday.  On Monday this meant I needed to clear the parking space in front of Stable. Having chopped down the trees on the north end of the orchard bed a few weeks ago, we had…

We have just enjoyed another decent week weather-wise, although considerably cooler than earlier in the month.  It has meant that another week has passed when I have not continued with the floor in the games room!  However, we fully intend to have the games room available for the main season so it will be completed.…

Who said Mother Nature doesn’t have a sense of humour?  Having planted so many of our new yews in the last couple of weeks, this week has been the first of the year when we have had absolutely no rain!  In fact, for at least 4 days the temperatures have been soaring into the upper…

There is a risk that this week’s blog could sound very similar (exactly the same!) as last week’s, as, again, my focus has been the 2 tasks of continuing the Games Room floor in Grange and planting our yew hedging.  To make sure it doesn’t, I will add a calendar of events coming up in…

This week has been focussed on 2 activities – when we have been working – progressing the floor in Grange’s games room and planting the yews that I showed in last week’s blog. I say when we have been working as the week started slowly being Easter Monday and the Marché sur l’eau.  However, before…