Ben and Dave’s Blog

Firstly, I should probably apologise for the title!  I tried to find something which summarised what we have been doing over the last week which was amusing and pithy although I suspect has ended up being more painful although, in its defence, accurate! In my recent blogs you will have seen that we have been…

Happy Valentine’s Day.  We hope you have had a relaxing and romantic day and have been spoilt / are spoiling your loved one. While not as a result of our specific Valentine’s marketing, which we probably did a little later than ideal, we have had a lovely Belgian couple and their pure while bulldog in…

This week’s blog isn’t going to be terribly long. Not because we haven’t been doing anything – we have – but because we have been doing the same thing all week and without much variety there isn’t so much to write about or pictures to show. The activity which we have been working on all…

The end of another week and, while I said I only had the perception we hadn’t achieved as much as we would have liked in last week’s blog, this week I can say it with absolute confidence!  While the title of the blog may also suggest that we have been physically active even that isn’t…

Last week I was able to report that we had enjoyed a productive week and managed to tick a number of tasks off of our incredibly long ‘to do’ list. This week we have continued to make progress and achieved some good results as well but I get to the end thinking, probably unfairly, that…

Last week has been one of those satisfying weeks when we feel we have been very productive and I feel we have made good progress with things as well as allowing ourselves a little time off. As you will understand our ‘to do’ list is ridiculously long and the number of projects that we want…

We hope you have settled into the routines of 2016 and suspect that Christmas and New Year festivities seem a long time ago!! We have had a relatively quiet week as the poor weather has prevented us making any progress on the garden work although we were able to take down all the Christmas decorations…

Happy New Year. David and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a fabulous New Year wherever you were and whatever you did.  We especially hope that you haven’t been impacted by the terrible weather and flooding that has occurred in the UK. This was our first year in France and Kergudon, and the…

This week’s efforts have been focussed principally on getting Priory and Kergudon ready for Christmas. While it really doesn’t feel like Christmas time as the weather has been anything like wintery, putting up so many decorations and having our first Christmas dinner, albeit not turkey, has started to get us in the mood. As we…

When I wrote last week’s blog we hadn’t seen the extent of the damage caused in the north west of England and especially areas of Cumbria and Glenridding in the Lake District. This is a town that David and I know well from our annual trips there with David’s Dad and friends and it is…