Ben and Dave’s Blog

Looking back over the last week I have to admit that we’re making a slow start to 2021.  That is perhaps not ideal when we have a long list of projects to accomplish and things we want to progress.  I haven’t spoken about my ‘To Do’ list for some time but, rest assured it continues…

Well, that was quite a year. My last blogs of the year, or sometimes the first, have been a summary of the major things we have achieved in the previous 12 months.  I do this more to remind Dave and I of what we have done but hope they are of interest to others.  I…

I have to say, I am surprised I am able to write a blog today.  Having seen the recent forecasts and the predicted strength of the winds we should have experienced in Storm Bella, I had every expectation that we would have lost at least power if not just internet in the carnage that could…

Apologies for not posting a blog last night.  I was a bit behind my ‘wanted to have completed by now’ list (I have lots of lists!) and wanted to wait until we had finished decorating our own home. The last blog, 2 weeks ago, said that I would have more splitting and shredding to be…

At the end of my last blog I said that this week’s work would be focussed on completing the clear up of the ash trees already felled before felling some more. It also said that the weather was looking good to do that most of the week and, unusually for us, we actually stuck to…

Apologies for not posting a blog last week.  I felt that the previous week hadn’t been as productive as we’d have liked.  Perhaps we have developed a confinement malaise which would be disappointing as we got so much done in the spring lockdown!  Maybe this is tied in with the autumn days getting shorter and…

If you are reading this blog on our website you may have noticed some changes!  In my last blog, which I can’t link to as it is on the old site, I mentioned that a project Dave had been working on for a number of weeks was about to come to fruition.  This new website…

I finished last week’s blog saying that we were expecting a busy week as it is the start of the Toussaint holiday in France.  It turned out to be so and we were delighted to be completely full last night with 16 people, our maximum capacity, across the 4 gîtes.  Today Stable is changing occupants…

In last week’s blog I mentioned that, if a company showed up when they said they would, we were having something lovely done in our own home.  This would focus my efforts for the first couple of days of the week. The ‘something lovely’ was having a new boiler installed and my efforts would be…