Ben and Dave’s Blog

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…

Sunday 31st December – Bonne Année We hope that everyone has had a fabulous Christmas and are not too fatigued and sated for New Year celebrations today!  I generally love this period between Christmas and New Year as a week when it doesn’t matter if very little gets done and, as my blog last week…

Sunday 24th December – Joyeux Noël My last blog seemed so long ago – and I apologise that I didn’t stick to my word and resume last Sunday but, hopefully, better late than never! In the month since my last blog we have spent a couple of weeks back in the UK doing a quick…

As promised in last week’s blog, this week would be mainly focussing on the lambris and sharing some pictures with you. I did mention that the progress has been slow and, despite my wish to be able to focus on that and just that, we did a number of other things too.  As such, the…