Ben and Dave’s Blog

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’…

This week has seen a lot of winter-into-spring weather with periods of heavy hail storms under very dark storm clouds interspersed with some bright and warm sunshine. Last week’s blog said that the weather forecast should allow me to progress renovation of the tropical flower bed on our main driveway but, unsurprisingly, the forecast changed…

This week’s blog will be short and, hopefully, sweet as, again, I have been focussed principally on a single task – but not Grange this time. Having started the tropical bed last week when the, incredibly showery weather allowed, I wanted to continue to strip it out which totalled only another 3 days. We knew…

Ben’s Brittany Holiday Cottages Blog 28th January 2018 Blog As I wrote last week’s blog, I was getting frustrated at the laminate flooring that we had bought to lay in the storeroom of Grange.  As I mentioned, we had purposely chosen the cheapest laminate available so we weren’t expecting anything of exceptional quality – although…

Remembering our desire to get Grange completed as quickly as we could in 2018, I am afraid that last week was (again) spent entirely on that goal. I had 2 things that I could progress and what I focussed on depended to a large extent on the weather which has been pretty awful – as…

This week has been focussed on one activity (as so many weeks have been in the last few months!) which was continuing with work on Grange. In last week’s blog I stated that, all being well, I would have all of the internal cladding complete by now – and I would have done had I…

We hope you all enjoyed whatever activities it is you were doing to see in 2018 and that you have a happy, healthy and rewarding year. We saw the New Year in with friends in Quimper and had a pretty amazing light show overnight – not because of impressive fireworks but because 2018 began pretty…