Ben and Dave’s Blog

Last week’s blog said that we had sat down and generated a ‘To Do’ list for the next 12 months which stood at 103 separate tasks.  This week we have worked on a number of these items and have managed to get that list to … 112!!  Trouble being that we manage to think of…

As I mentioned in last week’s blog, this week has seen some significant progress with the garage and we are definitely now committed to at least the shape! You may recall that I chose to dig all of the foundations manually (we had the time and it seemed like the sensible option at that point)…

Sunday 16 October – Holidays are Coming … I know most people probably won’t want reminding of this, but we are now over half way through October and there are only a couple of months left until we are at Christmas again!  Looking online it tells me that there are only 69 days left to…

A much shorter blog this week (perhaps you will be relieved to hear!) As we have not been hosting guests this week we have been able to progress our garage project albeit slowly while we dodge in and out of the spring-like showers. At the start of the week I had only managed to dig…

First, I should probably apologise for not posting a blog last week.  We had been hosting David’s uncle and aunt who had only visited Brittany once many years before we moved here despite being big fans of seafood.  Since we bought Kergudon they have fallen in love with the region and we are delighted that they…

As I look back on the past week it seems as though I have spent all of my time painting, or if not actually applying paint, then doing the preparatory work required to do so. In last week’s blog I said that we were going to paint much of the exterior wood around Kergudon the…

Sunday 04 September – Not too Chablis a week You may remember that we were very disappointed with the August weather last year as, while supposed to be the height of summer, it was a very damp and blustery month when we felt we were constantly apologising to our guests.  Thankfully this year’s August ended…

At the end of last week’s blog I was about half way through clearing out my man shed and re-discovering a number of tools and items that I hadn’t seen for some time!  This week I have progressed or started 4 new projects as well as had some fun time with friends. Monday saw me…

Despite saying that last week’s blog won’t be very long I managed to stretch it out …  This week I will start with the same claim and suspect it may be more accurate – certainly there aren’t many photos! The fantastic weather we had enjoyed the previous week continued into this week and we had…

This week won’t be a very long blog.  We have had a really lovely week and have had a good balance of work and play and enjoying the fabulous weather we have been having – and looks like will continue to have for the majority of next week. Last week we had some great friends…