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…
Sunday 20 October – Up on the Roof
I am posting this blog a little early as the weather outside is miserable (we are, thankfully, on the periphery of Storm Ashley) so I am not getting anything done in the garden. We are also out later today to say farewell to some friends who live here in the summer months but return to…
Sunday 6 October – Saintly Patience
At the end of last week’s blog, I said that the forecast was looking reasonably good which should allow lots of progress to be made and that David’s Dad was joining us so we could also do some social activities. I certainly managed to make some progress when the weather allowed. Sadly, the same could…
Sunday 29 September – Travel Changes
At the end of last week’s blog I said that the forecast was predicted to become more Breton and more autumnal, and so it turned out. Monday was actually the last of the decent weather so I managed to get a bonus afternoon continuing to cut the boundary hedge behind Hayloft that I started last…
Sunday 22 September – Indian Summer (for a week!)
For the first time in a couple of months, enough has happened in the last week for me to write a blog after 7 days (you’ll note I didn’t say ‘I’d done enough …’ 😉) The week started slowly as I had to take my car to the garage in Brest on Monday to have…
Sunday 15 September – La Rentrée
Another 2 weeks have passed since my last blog despite me saying that our good friends had left so we should be able to get back to some project work. The start of September is culturally the start of everything in France. The start of a new school year; a new political year (which will…
Sunday 01 September – Flash, Bang, Wallop
And quick as a flash we’re in September. How did that happen?! When I wrote my last blog, 2 weeks ago, I mentioned that we had just had some very good friends arrive with us for their summer hols and we may have lots of distractions. The fact that there wasn’t a blog last week…
Sunday 18 August – Make and Mend
Re-reading the blog I wrote 2 weeks ago, I could almost copy and paste the first 5 paragraphs to summarise the last couple of weeks and explain why, despite my assertion in the final paragraph, I didn’t write a blog last Sunday. Our progress on a number of things however, has been hampered to some…