{"id":1526,"date":"2017-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-11th-june-topped\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:03","slug":"sunday-11th-june-topped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-11th-june-topped\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 11th June &#8211; Topped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only a short blog this week I am afraid as, again, there has really only been one principle activity \u2013 Grange \u2013 but we have at least reached a major milestone \u2013 the roof is finished and all of the windows are now watertight (subject to test in the next huge downpour not forecast for sometime!)<\/p>\n<p>It was a slow start to the week as the forecast for Monday and Tuesday was terrible \u2013 although in reality wasn\u2019t as bad as predicted but it did delay us continuing with Grange until Wednesday.\u00a0 We spent Wednesday to Friday with a combination of rendering \u2013 which is very nearly complete \u2013 and roofing.\u00a0 Our builder did the flashing around the roof windows so that they would be completely watertight, and I did the remainder of the filling-in.\u00a0 I finished on Saturday and Dave and I marked the milestone with a drink but we will have a proper \u2018topping out\u2019 ceremony when our builder is with us and Dave doesn\u2019t have to go to work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Front-of-Grange-11-Jun-17.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2432 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Front-of-Grange-11-Jun-17-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Grange roof complete 11 June 2017 seen from front\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/180;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Grange-Front-Roof-Windows-11-Jun-17.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2433 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Grange-Front-Roof-Windows-11-Jun-17-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Roof windows on Grange at Kergudon Gites in Brittany\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/224;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the pictures don\u2019t look like the build has changed much in a few weeks we are at a point when, I hope and believe, getting to the end could be pretty swift\u00a0 &#8211; but much of it is now down to me.\u00a0 There are a few tasks that we need our builder to do but he has been delayed as we await wood from a local saw mill.\u00a0 The mill has had a problem with its main cutting machine creating a large delay to orders so we are unable to progress with some key items such as the stairs and garage door surrounds.<\/p>\n<p>What will be a great leap forward, which we should be able to complete in the coming week, is the dismantling the wooden scaffolding front and what is left to the rear.\u00a0 All we need is to put the guttering up before we can do that.\u00a0 I have a real sense that we are coming close to completion.<\/p>\n<p>The only other event to report is, as I mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-4th-june-more-grange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last week\u2019s blog<\/a>, we assisted our neighbours who, today, opened their garden as part of a new commune event.\u00a0 Throughout the commune, 10 gardens had been opened to members of the public although 9 of them were in the town of Sizun itself, approximately 7 kms from us, and our neighbours were concerned that not many would make the journey out to Saint Cadou.<\/p>\n<p>However, thankfully, their concerns were unfounded and, possibly helped by the warm and sunny weather, there was a steady stream of visitors to their garden where they were welcomed by a 7-piece \u2018orchestra\u2019 or a harp and violin trio organised by the Mairie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Harpists-at-Guidellou.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2436 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Harpists-at-Guidellou-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Harpists at Guidellou for Jardins de Fete 11 June 2017\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/206;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Guidellou.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2435 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/kergudon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Guidellou-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors to Guidellou for Jardins de Fete 11 June 2017\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/207;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our neighbours have joined the nascent French \u2018Open Gardens\u2019 programme, currently being the only garden in Finist\u00e8re, but they will be opening their garden every Sunday afternoon in August. Definitely worth visiting if you are here in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Next week will certainly be more work on Grange but hopefully, during the week, you will see some significant visual changes as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 bient\u00f4t.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a short blog this week I am afraid as, again, there has really only been one principle activity \u2013 Grange \u2013 but we have at least reached a major milestone \u2013 the roof is finished and all of the windows are now watertight (subject to test in the next huge downpour not forecast for&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ben-and-daves-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}