12 Treats of Christmas at Kergudon Gites, Finistere, France

Sunday 31st December – Bonne Année

Sunday 31st December – Bonne Année We hope that everyone has had a fabulous Christmas and are not too fatigued and sated for New Year celebrations today!  I generally love this period between Christmas and New Year as a week when it doesn’t matter if very little gets done and, as my blog last week…

Alice in Wonderland

Sunday 24th December – Joyeux Noël

Sunday 24th December – Joyeux Noël My last blog seemed so long ago – and I apologise that I didn’t stick to my word and resume last Sunday but, hopefully, better late than never! In the month since my last blog we have spent a couple of weeks back in the UK doing a quick…

Games Room Door

Sunday 26th November

As promised in last week’s blog, this week would be mainly focussing on the lambris and sharing some pictures with you. I did mention that the progress has been slow and, despite my wish to be able to focus on that and just that, we did a number of other things too.  As such, the…

Grange frontage

Sunday 19th November – What Else Wood I Do?

Last week’s blog said that my focus would be continuing with the lambris in the upstairs rooms of Grange, and that there were many days’ worth of work left to complete.  I was right on both counts!  It did also say that the forecast was to be dry and fantastic for autumn – that also…

2D Christmas Tree

Sunday 12th November – Getting Crafty

Last week’s blog said that the focus for the coming days would be dependent on the weather which turned out to be very mixed and prevented anything outside.  Thankfully there was plenty to be getting on with upstairs in Grange which has been the sole focus of the week. I did say that there was…

Digging Efforts 2

Sunday 5th November – Remember, Remember

Last week’s blog mentioned that I hadn’t had the most productive week as we were enjoying the company of our friends – thankfully this week has seen a lot more achieved.  While it did say that I had completed the wood store, I said that the plan was to continue digging around Grange so that…

Brandon

Sunday 29th October – The Tour is Coming

Last week’s blog ended saying that we would have some exciting news about the route of the Tour de France in 2018 … That news is that the Tour is coming to our commune and will pass through the centre of Sizun, only 7 kms from us. The route for next year’s tour was published…

Christmas cake cooking

Sunday 22nd October – Life of Brian

Sunday 22nd October – Life of Brian This week has been a mix of highs and lows.  Geographical highs and meteorological lows to be more precise.  I titled last week’s blog ‘Wiring done, winds to come’ as ex-hurricane Ophelia was forecast to create strong winds near us.  Thankfully, other than some slightly windier conditions, Ophelia…

Apple press at Kinkiz

Sunday 15th October – Wiring done, winds to come …

I mentioned in last week’s blog that we had been enjoying the company of family visitors for the previous couple of weeks and that continued last week with David’s parents staying with us.  As such, it has been a mix of social and productive with some fabulous meals enjoyed at home and in some of…