Posts de Benjamin Dickins

At the end of last week’s blog, I said that the excessive heat had passed and we were forecast to have some more Breton weather that should allow me to make more progress than I had in the previous few weeks. Thankfully, that turned out to be the case and on the drier days I…

Apologies for not posting a blog for the last 3 weeks.  If I’m honest, I can’t say it has been the most productive 3 weeks of our time here despite there being so much to do … The first week of the 3, I achieved very little as the weather was very un-spring-like and too…

In my last blog, 2 weeks ago, I said that I hoped the interior of the pool house would be complete by last Sunday, but I didn’t write a blog then. I expect most people would have made the assumption that no blog meant the pool house had not been finished.  On the contrary, I…

I mentioned at the end of last week’s blog that the weather had turned for the better and we were promised another dry week which we enjoyed.  In fact, I don’t believe that I am even saying this, in Finistère, in April, we are almost reaching drought conditions as everything is exceptionally dry which isn’t…

At the end of my last blog, I said that David was off for a second week and the forecast was looking good so we should have another couple of productive weeks and that I would update last Sunday.  We managed the former but you will have noticed, I failed to do the latter! Mostly…

At the end of last week’s blog I said that I had a couple of plans for activities I wanted to achieve in the week.  I didn’t mention that Dave had taken a week’s leave from the gym so was also at home and able to assist with some larger tasks I couldn’t do on…

Each week in my blogs I’m pleased that I’m able to say that we have completed the next big step in the pool house.  This week is no exception and, arguably, we have completed 2 big steps. Admittedly, the first was less than a day’s work as all the preparation had happened during the construction…

We have had a fairly productive week but managed to balance it with a really relaxed weekend. At the end of last week’s blog, I said the forecast was for the first fabulous week of spring weather and, amazingly for some of the forecasters’ accuracy, that is what we enjoyed. I also said that I…

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…