Sunday 25 October – Busy, busy
I finished last week’s blog saying that we were expecting a busy week as it is the start of the Toussaint holiday in France. It turned out to be so and we were delighted to be completely full last night with 16 people, our maximum capacity, across the 4 gîtes. Today Stable is changing occupants…
Sunday 18 October – The Heat is On
In last week’s blog I mentioned that, if a company showed up when they said they would, we were having something lovely done in our own home. This would focus my efforts for the first couple of days of the week. The ‘something lovely’ was having a new boiler installed and my efforts would be…
Sunday 11 October – Canal Turn
My last blog said that the preceding couple of weeks weren’t perhaps the most productive of my time but that David had a week off work, from Brest at least, so I would have a work mate and we may be able to get more achieved. I’m glad I said ‘may’ and not ‘would’! Who…
Sunday 04 October – Ice Cold in Alex
So, having said in my last blog, posted 2 weeks ago after a couple of week’s hiatus, that I would get back into the habit of writing a weekly blog. However, it did have the caveat that it was ‘assuming we don’t get diverted to Au Lac’. You will have seen there was no blog…
Sunday 20 September – An Indian Summer
Apologies that it has been three weeks since posting a blog – it seems like so long ago! At least there is lots to cover as it has been a reasonably productive period at least the last 2 weeks have. The first week less so as I was struck by a pretty nasty bug that…
Sunday 30 August – Blue Lorry, Yellow Lorry
Apologies for not posting a blog last week – will let you know why later. It has been an odd couple of weeks in terms of work – possibly not the busiest or most productive – and there aren’t too many major things to share with you. I have continued to stain Grange although the…
Sunday 16 August – A Stain on our Character
Last week’s blog stated that I was focussed on 2 tasks – hedge cutting and staining Grange. It was the latter that was the continued focus for this week and still it isn’t finished! I know it seems like it is taking an awfully long time to do something fairly simple, and to be fair…
Sunday 09 August – Same Old, Same Old!
Last week’s blog said that we had started 2 major projects which desperately needed doing. It is both of these that I have been continuing with this week – although neither are actually finished! Earlier in the week I continued with the hedging which is very nearly complete. I was fortunate in that the weather…
Sunday 2 August – Back to Work
I can’t believe that my last blog, 2 weeks ago, was written the day we completed Priory. It already seems like so long ago … Thankfully, both families who have stayed in Priory in the last 2 weeks have absolutely loved what we have done and have left us some lovely comments. The family who…