Sunday 14th June

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As you will recall, we rewarded ourselves with a few days off having completed the refurbishment of Priory last Friday. Well, those few days became the whole of last week and, while we haven’t been completely idle, we have enjoyed what can almost be called a week off, certainly a slower tempo one! Thankfully this…

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Sunday 7th June – Priory Complete

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Sunday 7th June – Priory Complete Firstly – as requested via Facebook – first billing goes to Dave’s aunt and uncle, Chris and Clint, who arrived with us yesterday for a week’s holiday in Hayloft. This is their second visit to us, the first being in February before we had started any of the refurbishments,…

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Monday 1st June

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June? Is it really June already? Where did May go? We cannot believe how quickly this year is going and worryingly how close we are to ‘the season’ with so much work left to do!! And to think we naïvely thought that we could be complete in all our gîtes and open for business by…

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Sunday 24th May

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Sunday 24th May Our focus this week has remained working in Priory to prepare for our first guests (2 weeks and counting) and while we have made good progress and we remain, I am confident, on track I have not attach many photos to this post as all rooms are still works in progress rather…

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Sunday 17th May

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  Well, as we had planned after the frenetic work of the previous week, last week has been rather more relaxed and, if I’m being honest, you’ll see we have taken our foot of the pedal a little and, as I posted my blog last Monday, I can update from Tuesday to this evening. Our…

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Sunday 10th May – Hayloft Refurbishment Completed

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Sunday 10th May – Hayloft Refurbishment Completed           OK, so I was planning to post this blog last night. I had started to write the text yesterday morning and had every intention to upload it in the evening when we had updated some photos on the website. However, as the weather…

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Sunday 26th April

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Sunday 26th April Happy Sunday all. Sadly, the amazing weather we have enjoyed for the last couple of weeks has finally broken and it has been damp and showery for the last couple of days. While not as appealing for BBQ’ing it will be great for the garden.   It is amazing how quickly things grow…

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Sunday 19th April – Week 12

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Sunday 19th April – Week 12 The end of another busy and productive week when we have achieved some real successes and not just in the redevelopment of the gîtes. Firstly, we have received a Certificate of Conformity for our car from VW France which allows us to progress its registration here. There was some…

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Sunday 12th April – Week 11

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I can’t believe Easter was only last week – so much has happened it seems like it was weeks ago! I know I posted last week’s blog on Monday evening but I purposely left out the activities we had on Easter Monday.  You may remember the ladies of the Comité des Fêtes asked if we…

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Sunday 5th April (I know!) – Week 10

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Well my wish for the weather to improve at the end of last week’s blog has come good and this Easter weekend has been bathed in wonderful sunshine. Apologies (again!!) for not posting this yesterday as I usually do on a Sunday but, as it was Easter and today is a public holiday, it’s sort…

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