Sunday 10 September – Scorchio!

At the end of last week’s blog, I mentioned that the forecast was looking pretty good. As things turned out it has proven to be the hottest week of the year – and exceptionally, even unpleasantly, humid at times. That said we have managed to get some things done and progress a couple of useful…

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Sunday 03 September – Mixed Meteo

As we entered meteorological autumn on Friday (1st September), the weather decided to become exceptionally summery!  Today has been in the low 30s and one of the hottest days we have had this year, certainly since June. Since we moved here in 2015, we have found that the late summer / early autumn period tends…

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Sunday 27 August – Good Friends, Good Times

Apologies that it has been yet another 2 weeks since my last blog although that is a reflection of how little actual ‘project’ work we have managed to get completed! This is partly down to weather (still); illness and some lovely distractions with friends. The weather has been as mixed over the last 2 weeks…

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Sunday 13 August – Warmer Rain

The only reason I feel that we might get to see a summer this year, is that while it doesn’t appear to be raining much less, the wind has dropped and the rain has got a little warmer! This week’s blog won’t therefore be very long but does show that we’re still here if nothing…

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Sunday 23 July – Nuclear Decommissioning

The ‘dramatic improvement’ in the weather I had predicted in last week’s blog, mostly as Wimbledon has concluded, hasn’t really materialised!  While last week wasn’t as bad as actually forecast, and not as bad as next week is forecast to be(!) I can’t say that summer is here with wall-to-wall sunshine. Thankfully, having spoken to…

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Sunday 16 July – SportsMania

Apologies, this would have been posted earlier had it not been for a fairly epic tennis match!! Some progress over the last couple of weeks although my efforts have been interrupted by some predictable, and some less predictable, things. The less predictable has been that the extremely hot weather we were experiencing (I hesitate to…

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Sunday 2nd July – Summer Routines

I can’t believe we are already into July and the summer season is well and truly underway.  Another couple of weeks since my last blog, why I’ll explain later, and our focus has had to move away from the major projects, especially any noisy ones, and spend more time cleaning and preparing the accommodation as…

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Sunday 18 June – Mauvaises Herbes

You may have seen that I didn’t post a blog last Sunday – sorry.  We had had a productive week but not necessarily on things that made for great pictures or an interesting read!  Unfortunately, even now, I haven’t taken as many ‘before’ photos of what we have achieved. The last blog said that we…

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