Ben and Dave’s Blog

Short and (hopefully) sweet this week! I said in last week’s blog that I hadn’t started taking down the Christmas decorations as we still had guests stay with us until last Saturday.  Thankfully, it seems that the French don’t have the same tradition of having to take decorations down before Twelfth Night to avoid bad…

In last week’s blog I resolved (the most appropriate word considering what date it was) to be better at writing my regular blog, 2022 having been fairly poor.  So, 2 weeks in I can say I am doing better. One resolution fulfilled at least! This week’s blog however, won’t be especially long, and I am…

We hope you have all had a very pleasant Christmas doing whatever it is you like doing with people you enjoy doing it with!  We had a good Christmas here at Kergudon, David’s Dad joined us which made up for last year’s travel interruptions, and we have had some lovely guests in all of our…

Last Sunday’s blog said that my focus for this week would be more decorating to ensure that all our Christmas guests have a magical time – and that is pretty much all I’ve been doing and I’m still not finished! In previous years, we have watched some of the television programmes when UK stately homes…

I know that the correct expression is ‘It’s beginning to look A LOT like Christmas’ but I can’t say that is the case here yet – but we are making progress. In last week’s blog (and amazingly I am managing to blog on 2 consecutive Sundays!) I said that we were delighted to have every…

This hasn’t been a great year for me reliably writing a weekly blog!  Looking back, the last blog I wrote did say how horrified I was with how quickly 2022 seems to be passing as we were about to enter November.  As things turned out, I didn’t write anything all month. Previously, I have said…

This year is passing alarmingly quickly!  It has been another 3 weeks since my last blog and we’re in November on Tuesday. To be honest, the week following my last blog I was feeling a little under the weather for a few days so not much was progressed and ever since then I have spent…

In last week’s blog, I mentioned that we had a few days before we had new guests arrive.  This has turned out to be nearer a couple of weeks as one of the guests who were due to stay with us was diagnosed with COVID and so, sensibly, decided not to travel. It is still…

And so we arrive in October.  How did that happen??  September seems to have passed in a bit of a blur, hence no blog since the 4th September! Looking back over the past month, I don’t think I have been especially slack but, equally, I can’t honestly say that I have made great leaps forward. …

Last week’s blog said that, with our friends having departed back to the UK, I would be able to make some good progress on our projects and pick up the hedge cutting task.  Yes and no! The extended dry period we have had this year has well and truly ended with last week being one…