Sunday 07 January – 2023: The Year of the Windy Duck
Sunday 07 January – 2023: The Year of the Windy Duck We hope you all enjoyed your New Year celebrations whatever you were doing and wherever you were celebrating – or just giving it a stiff ignoring! David and I spent the evening of 31st here with friends and David’s Dad who had stayed over…
Saturday 30 December – Bonne Année
Having written my previous blog last Saturday, so that I didn’t need to on Christmas Eve, I had to do it in a bit of a hurry. Having re-read it, it became clear that my spelling and grammar, not perfect at the best of times, suffered! Also, force of habit made me write that it…
Sunday 23 December – Joyeux Noël
I promised last Sunday that I would try and write a Saturday blog with tomorrow, and next Sunday, being significant dates. I have managed, but will keep it short! We have had a productive week and think we are now definitely back on track for our schedule for the festive period – that’s not to…
Sunday 17 December – A Gîte for all Seasons
Having promised, at the end of my last blog, to write again last Sunday, you may have noticed I didn’t manage to get anything written. That’s not to say we didn’t do anything, but we certainly didn’t do anywhere near as much as we wanted (needed?) and we were perhaps a bit behind the Christmas…
Sunday 03 December – Home Again
It has been almost a month since I wrote my last blog which is no reflection of a lack of activity but that in that time David and I have spent a couple of weeks back in the UK catching up with family and friends. We had a great time and are very grateful to…
Monday 6 November – Ciarán Carnage
Unusually I am posting this week’s blog on a Monday, and there is good reason for that! Last week’s blog said that the weather has been pretty poor all autumn with rain and blustery winds but that it looked like things may take a turn for the even worse as the Met Office has already…
Sunday 29 October – Shower Dodging
The title of this week’s blog isn’t a reflection of our hygiene habits(!) but what we, and our pool builders, have had to do all week. In my last blog I mentioned that my back had twinged to the point that I was immobile at the start of the week and so this week I…
Sunday 22 October – No Turning Back and Back not Turning
It has been another 2 weeks since I wrote my last blog but things have been happening and we have made the first big strides in our large winter project. When I wrote the last blog we had David’s Dad staying with us and 1 week left to complete the clearance of the old vegetable…
Sunday 08 October – Family, Felling and Fungi
At the end of my last blog, I said that we had just welcomed Dave’s uncle and aunt and were about to welcome my own uncle and aunt who were staying with us with some of their oldest friends who were visiting from upstate New York. It also said that I would write a blog…