Posts de Benjamin Dickins

As last week, the past 7 days have been taken up with preparations for Christmas. Thankfully Priory was complete in time to welcome our first guests last Tuesday who had a short break staying with us for a couple of nights. With Priory decorated, I was able to progress Hayloft (guests arrived on Wednesday night)…

In my last blog I said that I had started to decorate the gîtes for Christmas and that has been my principal focus for the week. I also said that the pool project had reached a crucial stage with the terrace being the next step although it couldn’t be laid if it were wet of…

Many apologies for not posting a blog since 10th November.  The reason being we have been back in the UK for a couple of weeks to catch up with friends and family and celebrate a very good friend’s 50th birthday.  As such, this will be a short blog but will let you know we’re alive(!)…

Much of this week’s blog may sound similar to last week.  The forecast was pretty much the same although turned out to be drier and brighter. Much of the work we completed was also similar and, thankfully, as I had hoped in last week’s blog, I did manage to complete a couple of tasks I’d…

I ended last week’s blog saying the forecast was looking great and was expecting to be dry and mild.  It was certainly the latter but, sadly, not always the former!  Thankfully, while not as pleasant as forecast, Friday night marked one year since storm Ciáran blew through Finistère causing an immense amount of damage so…

Last week’s blog hoped that the Hayloft roof work would be completed in the last 7 days so we could start clearing up behind the roofers. Thankfully, despite last Monday being extremely wet, they managed to finish the roof and dismantle the scaffolding by Wednesday.  We are really pleased with the finished result. The slate…

I am posting this blog a little early as the weather outside is miserable (we are, thankfully, on the periphery of Storm Ashley) so I am not getting anything done in the garden.  We are also out later today to say farewell to some friends who live here in the summer months but return to…

At the end of last week’s blog, I said that the forecast was looking reasonably good which should allow lots of progress  to be made and that David’s Dad was joining us so we could also do some social activities. I certainly managed to make some progress when the weather allowed.  Sadly, the same could…

At the end of last week’s blog I said that the forecast was predicted to become more Breton and more autumnal, and so it turned out. Monday was actually the last of the decent weather so I managed to get a bonus afternoon continuing to cut the boundary hedge behind Hayloft that I started last…

For the first time in a couple of months, enough has happened in the last week for me to write a blog after 7 days (you’ll note I didn’t say ‘I’d done enough …’ 😉) The week started slowly as I had to take my car to the garage in Brest on Monday to have…