Posts de Benjamin Dickins

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…

Another 2 weeks have passed since my last blog despite me saying that our good friends had left so we should be able to get back to some project work. The start of September is culturally the start of everything in France.  The start of a new school year; a new political year (which will…

And quick as a flash we’re in September.  How did that happen?! When I wrote my last blog, 2 weeks ago, I mentioned that we had just had some very good friends arrive with us for their summer hols and we may have lots of distractions.   The fact that there wasn’t a blog last week…

Re-reading the blog I wrote 2 weeks ago, I could almost copy and paste the first 5 paragraphs to summarise the last couple of weeks and explain why, despite my assertion in the final paragraph, I didn’t write a blog last Sunday. Our progress on a number of things however, has been hampered to some…

I can’t believe either that we have already entered August, or that I haven’t written a blog for 3 weeks with my last being on French Fête Nationale.  This will be pretty short too but normal service will be resumed. Generally when I don’t write a blog it is for one of a few reasons. …