Posts de Benjamin Dickins

A short one this week and not so many pictures – sorry! In last week’s blog, I mentioned I had one day of work in the pool house before I could start painting the undercoats and making better progress, and I planned to do that when our guests left us on Tuesday. Before I could…

It has been far longer than I’d hoped since I wrote my last blog and there is far less to show you as progress too. This isn’t that we’ve been idle but more as a result of being far busier at this time of year than previously in the gîtes and, having guests that want…

I started off last week’s blog saying that it would be a short one as I had been focussed on a single task – plasterboarding.  This one is much the same and so the photos haven’t changed that much! Last week’s blog said that I had completed about 80% of the job and I had…

Today’s will be a short blog as most of my productive time has been focussed on a single task which, thankfully, is the one that I said I would be progressing in last week’s blog – plaster boarding the interior of the pool house. The week began with work done principally by someone else, but…

Last week, I suggested that I might have some excuses for not starting back with project work during the week however, no excuses required and the project work has begun again despite having experienced one of the wettest weeks I can recall since we moved here. That said, thankfully the week started dry and allowed…

Having promised to write blogs more frequently than my average last year, and not to have periods of 4 weeks without writing anything, I thought I’d better write something today having already missed last week! I made a number of statements in my last blog for what I would do and what we were hoping…

Happy New Year to you all.  David and I hope you have all had a pleasant Christmas and welcomed the New Year in as you would wish! Apologies that I haven’t posted a blog since December 7th, not even to pass on our Christmas wishes.  Reading back through all our 2025 blogs, which I do…

As predicted, last week has principally been continuing to decorate and prepare Priory and Granary for the arrival of a party of 8 ladies who have chosen Kergudon as the venue to get together and celebrate a 50th birthday. I didn’t get as much decorating done as I’d have liked, and I didn’t post any…

Apologies that it has been 4 weeks since I last wrote a blog.  The reason, as is often the case when there is a large gap, is that we took the opportunity of having quiet gîtes in November to visit the UK and catch up with friends and family. While we were in the UK…

At the end of my last blog, I said that the forecast was looking decidedly autumnal which should have allowed me to make a start with the framing and plaster boarding of the pool house. However, it also said that we had a family arrive in Priory for the school half term and I didn’t…