Ben and Dave’s Blog

Work at the start of the week was focussed on starting to prepare all of our gîtes to accept guests yesterday.  On Monday this meant I needed to clear the parking space in front of Stable. Having chopped down the trees on the north end of the orchard bed a few weeks ago, we had…

We have just enjoyed another decent week weather-wise, although considerably cooler than earlier in the month.  It has meant that another week has passed when I have not continued with the floor in the games room!  However, we fully intend to have the games room available for the main season so it will be completed.…

Who said Mother Nature doesn’t have a sense of humour?  Having planted so many of our new yews in the last couple of weeks, this week has been the first of the year when we have had absolutely no rain!  In fact, for at least 4 days the temperatures have been soaring into the upper…

There is a risk that this week’s blog could sound very similar (exactly the same!) as last week’s, as, again, my focus has been the 2 tasks of continuing the Games Room floor in Grange and planting our yew hedging.  To make sure it doesn’t, I will add a calendar of events coming up in…

This week has been focussed on 2 activities – when we have been working – progressing the floor in Grange’s games room and planting the yews that I showed in last week’s blog. I say when we have been working as the week started slowly being Easter Monday and the Marché sur l’eau.  However, before…

We have now identified the issue that prevented me adding any images to last week’s blog.  It seems that we had reached our storage limit on WordPress and so couldn’t add any more pics.  Having spent a day during the week doing some cleaning up and archiving we are now able to add this week’s…

Last week’s blog stated that, weather permitting, I would continue to work in the garden and progressing Grange.  Well, while the weather was considerably warmer than the previous week, it was much much wetter.  However, I did manage to alternate between the 2 tasks and progress both – although I would have been able to…

As I mentioned a couple of week’s ago I didn’t post a blog last Sunday as David and I had taken a break to travel back to the UK and join some friends for a week’s walking in the Lake District as we have done for a number of years.  The week was fabulous, and…

Reasonably productive week this week, although once again jumping in and outside to avoid the many heavy showers and hail storms. The most pleasing thing was that, after almost 2 week’s effort, I finished the week’s job of rebuilding the jungle / tropical bed and we think it looks great and has incorporated the ‘sink’…