{"id":2607,"date":"2018-12-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-31-december-bonne-annee\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:34","slug":"sunday-30-december-bonne-annee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-30-december-bonne-annee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 30 December – Bonne Ann\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I start please be aware that WordPress has updated itself so how I post the blog has changed and it may not look like it usually does! I will see if I can master it but I suspect (hope) it \/ I will improve in coming weeks!<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope that everyone has had a wonderful week and enjoyed their\nChristmas festivities.  We have had a\ngreat Christmas, were very spoiled both with lovely gifts but also fabulous\nweather allowing us to enjoy a few days of doing no work but eating, relaxing\nand taking the dogs out for long walks in the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David prepared a number of magnificent meals.  On Christmas Eve he made Pheasant Balmoral,\nan adaption of Chicken Balmoral a guest explained to us which is chicken\nstuffed with haggis and wrapped in bacon. \nWe often have some haggis in the freezer and we have recently bought\npheasant and, as it sounded so good, David gave it a go.  Delicious and definitely recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas dinner was delicious too. \nTurkey this year rather than our normal goose.  We started at 5 and went on for a number of hours.  At the end of it we didn\u2019t have space for either\nChristmas pud or cake and we still didn\u2019t need a big meal the following day despite\nhaving had another long walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We knew that the French generally make a bigger deal of Christmas Eve than Christmas Day itself, and that Boxing Day isn\u2019t a public holiday here (they have plenty of others!)\u00a0 However, we weren\u2019t expecting to receive a phone call from a farmer at 9 am who wanted to deliver some firewood at 9.30!\u00a0 Ideally, I would have had more of a leisurely start on 26th<\/sup> but I had already got up to put the bins out for the dustmen who came at 9.10 \u2013 very festive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time last year my blog<\/a> summarised a number of the projects we had completed in and around Kergudon in 2017.  We are generally very guilty of focussing more on the work which is left to do rather than look back at the things we have achieved, so I thought I would do another summary of 2018 work completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having re-read the blogs I wrote throughout the year I was amazed\n(alarmed) at how many began by saying something similar to \u2018not much progress\nmade this week\u2019, or \u2018it\u2019s been a quiet week\u2019 and then justifying why we hadn\u2019t done\nmuch in the preceding 7 days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said we did manage to achieve quite a lot in 2018 and have made\nsignificant changes to Kergudon and the activities available for our guests.  I have again attached some pictures to show\nthe then and now (hopefully, it is evident which is which.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My summary of 2017 said that, unsurprisingly, Grange had been the major\nfocus of the year (a \u2018time thief\u2019), and in December was still some way off\ncompletion.  As such, our focus at the\nstart of this year was to make a final push to complete the interior spaces and\nclad the inside of the garage bays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n