Ben and Dave’s Blog

We hope you are all well. Last week’s blog was a description of limitations implemented in France to try and limit the spread of coronavirus.  Since then these have become more stringent with anyone leaving their homes having to carry a certificate stating which of the limited justifications for travelling applies to their journey. Almost…

Last week’s blog said that, by today, I’d have hoped that both the bathrooms would be finished other than the decoration.  I also mentioned that the project was progressing more slowly than I’d have liked.  You may know where this is going … The last week has continued to progress Priory, and principally still plumbing. …

Apologies for not being able to post a blog last week.  I was all ready and prepared but when I tried to upload some images to our website it was obvious there was a problem with our site editor.  Our IT department (David) has found a way that I can post while WordPress sorts out…

Apologies for not posting a blog last week.  We, as all of the UK and NW France were in the teeth of Storm Dennis.  Thankfully, here at Kergudon we have escaped any significant wind damage and, being high up flooding is never going to be a problem.  With the exception of a few hours without…

The last week has been one of those frustrating time when, despite working all week, when you look back at what has been achieved you get the feeling that it isn’t as much as we should have! That said, we have generally continued to build rather than demolish, and add to the charm of the…

Despite mentioning the start of the Six Nations in last week’s blog, having watched the England / France match I won’t be mentioning too much about the game … The week has, inevitably, been focussed on the Priory refurbishment and we have had both our builder and our electrician with us for most of the…

As hoped at the end of my last blog, the weather for the last 7 days has been a very welcome break to the previous 3 months of generally wet and windy conditions. This has allowed me to complete some outside work as, while we are obviously far from complete in Priory, there is a…

At the end of last week’s blog, I mentioned that the forecast was looking particularly bad for the start of the week just gone, and so it turned out. Storm Brendan arrived on Monday which, despite stronger winds than normal and lots of rain, didn’t prove too disruptive.  It was the storm which hit us…

I mentioned at the end of last week’s blog that once we had completed taking down all of the Christmas decorations we would start emptying Priory of all its furniture and furnishings in preparation for its refurbishment.  And this is exactly what we have been doing this week. We did manage to pack away all…

Happy New Year to everyone.  We hope that you all marked the arrival of 2020 as you would wish and the New Year has begun well. We have had a gentle week and saw the New Year in with our guests in Priory who invited us for a few drinks which, inevitably, led to us…