Sunday 19 January – Ahead of the Game
Last week’s blog was relatively short as my sole focus had been to de-rig the Christmas decorations. This week’s will be shorter still as that has remained my principal effort. This time last week, I had cleared our own house and had almost finished those in Granary. I said that it was my hope that…
Sunday 12 January – De-Rig-er!
I mentioned in my last blog that the weather forecast for last week was due to be pretty poor, and so it turned out. This week’s blog will be quite short. Thankfully, my focus was all internal starting to take down all the Christmas decorations. The only disadvantage of putting up so many decorations, is…
Sunday 5 January 2025 – Happy New (10) Years
Bonne année à tous ! Apologies for not posting a blog last week. In my previous blog, I said that we hoped to relax and enjoy Christmas to the full, evidently I was too busy relaxing to write a blog! We hope you all had good Christmases and have started the 2025 happy and healthy. …
Sunday 22 December – Joyeux Noël
As last week, the past 7 days have been taken up with preparations for Christmas. Thankfully Priory was complete in time to welcome our first guests last Tuesday who had a short break staying with us for a couple of nights. With Priory decorated, I was able to progress Hayloft (guests arrived on Wednesday night)…
Sunday 15 December – Oh Deer!
In my last blog I said that I had started to decorate the gîtes for Christmas and that has been my principal focus for the week. I also said that the pool project had reached a crucial stage with the terrace being the next step although it couldn’t be laid if it were wet of…
Sunday 8 December – We’re Back
Many apologies for not posting a blog since 10th November. The reason being we have been back in the UK for a couple of weeks to catch up with friends and family and celebrate a very good friend’s 50th birthday. As such, this will be a short blog but will let you know we’re alive(!)…
Sunday 10 November – Remembering (last week)
Much of this week’s blog may sound similar to last week. The forecast was pretty much the same although turned out to be drier and brighter. Much of the work we completed was also similar and, thankfully, as I had hoped in last week’s blog, I did manage to complete a couple of tasks I’d…
Sunday 03 November – Toussaint Travail
I ended last week’s blog saying the forecast was looking great and was expecting to be dry and mild. It was certainly the latter but, sadly, not always the former! Thankfully, while not as pleasant as forecast, Friday night marked one year since storm Ciáran blew through Finistère causing an immense amount of damage so…
Sunday 27 October – Indian Autumn
Last week’s blog hoped that the Hayloft roof work would be completed in the last 7 days so we could start clearing up behind the roofers. Thankfully, despite last Monday being extremely wet, they managed to finish the roof and dismantle the scaffolding by Wednesday. We are really pleased with the finished result. The slate…