Ben and Dave’s Blog

At the end of my last blog I said that this week’s work would be focussed on completing the clear up of the ash trees already felled before felling some more. It also said that the weather was looking good to do that most of the week and, unusually for us, we actually stuck to…

Apologies for not posting a blog last week.  I felt that the previous week hadn’t been as productive as we’d have liked.  Perhaps we have developed a confinement malaise which would be disappointing as we got so much done in the spring lockdown!  Maybe this is tied in with the autumn days getting shorter and…

If you are reading this blog on our website you may have noticed some changes!  In my last blog, which I can’t link to as it is on the old site, I mentioned that a project Dave had been working on for a number of weeks was about to come to fruition.  This new website…

I finished last week’s blog saying that we were expecting a busy week as it is the start of the Toussaint holiday in France.  It turned out to be so and we were delighted to be completely full last night with 16 people, our maximum capacity, across the 4 gîtes.  Today Stable is changing occupants…

In last week’s blog I mentioned that, if a company showed up when they said they would, we were having something lovely done in our own home.  This would focus my efforts for the first couple of days of the week. The ‘something lovely’ was having a new boiler installed and my efforts would be…

My last blog said that the preceding couple of weeks weren’t perhaps the most productive of my time but that David had a week off work, from Brest at least, so I would have a work mate and we may be able to get more achieved. I’m glad I said ‘may’ and not ‘would’!  Who…

So, having said in my last blog, posted 2 weeks ago after a couple of week’s hiatus, that I would get back into the habit of writing a weekly blog.  However, it did have the caveat that it was ‘assuming we don’t get diverted to Au Lac’.  You will have seen there was no blog…

Apologies that it has been three weeks since posting a blog – it seems like so long ago!  At least there is lots to cover as it has been a reasonably productive period at least the last 2 weeks have.  The first week less so as I was struck by a pretty nasty bug that…

Apologies for not posting a blog last week – will let you know why later. It has been an odd couple of weeks in terms of work – possibly not the busiest or most productive – and there aren’t too many major things to share with you. I have continued to stain Grange although the…

Last week’s blog stated that I was focussed on 2 tasks – hedge cutting and staining Grange.  It was the latter that was the continued focus for this week and still it isn’t finished! I know it seems like it is taking an awfully long time to do something fairly simple, and to be fair…