Ben and Dave’s Blog

Last week’s blog said that again I had 2 tasks to progress and what I did depended to a large degree on the weather.  It also stated that with the arrival of September and autumn we saw the arrival of damp and drizzly conditions.  Sadly these continued for most of last week meaning I focussed…

I can barely believe that it is the start of September already and so the start of meteorological autumn, and almost overnight the weather has turned suitably autumnal.  I like this time of the year possibly the most as it can create some lovely views with the early morning mists covering the hills and the…

In last week’s blog I listed a number of tasks that I hoped to progress during the week but did say that our good friends were remaining with us and that not everything was likely to get done.  I was right – and you can probably guess which of those didn’t get completed! I did…

As suspected I did not post a blog last week as we were entertaining, and being entertained, by some very good friends who had arrived for a fortnight’s holiday with us – their third year.  As a result the last week has perhaps been a little lighter with work than would normally be, and it…

When I posted last week’s blog, we were still offline and were relying on the kindness of our neighbours to allow us to visit a couple of times a day to download emails.  I did say that we had an appointment with a phone engineer on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and that we would keep…

The last 7 days seem to have been spent on 2 activities.  Either I have had a paint brush in my hand or I have been leaning out of the top floor window on Dave’s mobile speaking with our phone provider, SFR.  I mentioned in last week’s blog that we were offline with no phone…

I wasn’t sure of I would be able to post a blog this week, and I will keep it brief, as we are currently off-line with no phone, and so no internet service and we are relying on the generosity of some neighbours who allow us to pop in a couple of times a day…

As I mentioned in my last blog, the weather early last week was a mix of showers and more autumnal weather than we would expect in July.  All of the tasks that I have been working on, and there are a number on the go which need completing before we fill up for the summer,…

Last week saw us back with bright, clear, sunny days with scorching temperatures and wilting heat so much so that I amazed Dave by actually asking to have some suntan lotion applied – I am usually the worst person about asking for any sort of protection again things – and I even wore a baseball…

As forecast, the weather has returned to a more ‘Breton’ pattern over the last week and we have seen a couple of days with torrential downpours.  This has been restrictive in terms of what we have been able to do outside but has been welcome relief for the garden which was becoming more and more…