Ben and Dave’s Blog
Sunday 25th March – (Still) Waiting for Spring
Apologies that there are no photos with this blog – there seems to be a problem uploading them to WordPress (the platform I use to write the blogs). If anyone is a WordPress expert any advice would be greatly appreciated … I can barely believe that when I was writing last week’s blog it was…
Lire la suiteSunday 11 March – Avoiding the Showers
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…
Lire la suiteSunday 4th March – F … F … F … Freezing
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…
Lire la suiteSunday 18th February – In the Jungle, the (to be planted) Jungle …
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’…
Lire la suiteSunday 11th February – Jungle Clearance
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…
Lire la suiteAfter a long absence …
We’re back! I’m sorry if you’ve missed reading our weekly blog – I like to kid myself that there is an army of readers who sit poised in great anticipation of my weekly missive! The reason for radio silence over the last 6 weeks is a combination of not being at Kergudon for a number…
Lire la suiteSunday 21 February – Laurel and Hard-dig!
Firstly, I should probably apologise for the title! I tried to find something which summarised what we have been doing over the last week which was amusing and pithy although I suspect has ended up being more painful although, in its defence, accurate! In my recent blogs you will have seen that we have been…
Lire la suiteSunday 4th February – Yucca Gloriosa In Memorium
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…
Lire la suiteSunday 28th January – Variety is the Spice of Life
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…
Lire la suiteSunday 21st January – Grange Grinds On …
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…
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