{"id":2884,"date":"2019-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-02-june-strong-and-stable\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:42","slug":"sunday-02-june-strong-and-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-02-june-strong-and-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 02 June – Strong and Stable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firstly, my apologies for not posting a blog last week \u2013 and not saying that I wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Also, don\u2019t get excited with the main picture \u2013 we haven\u2019t got a new puppy!\u00a0 Why, later.<\/p>\n

I had intended to post something but it would have been fairly short, without many images and run along the lines of \u2018although we always seem to have been doing something, it doesn\u2019t feel like we have achieved much this week\u2019.<\/p>\n

While we had started a, relatively, major project the week before last, there was fairly little to say and, as one of my most loyal blog readers, Dave\u2019s aunt, had arrived with us the day before, there probably weren\u2019t many people to have read it anyway!<\/p>\n

That said, we did have a major milestone for Kergudon (sort of) with our first engagement that took place here.\u00a0 A lovely couple who were staying with us in Priory got engaged and we wish them the best of luck for the future.<\/p>\n

The \u2018theme\u2019 for this week is sort of similar mostly due to the arrival of my blog reader, which has led to a very sociable week, some late nights and so some fairly gentle days!<\/p>\n

The project that we have started (and had hoped to complete fairly quickly) was a renovation of our smallest g\u00eete \/ B&B, Stable.<\/p>\n

We understand that when Kergudon was run as a farm, Stable was the building used to house the bull.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know exactly when it dates from but our guess is probably sometime in the 19th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

David and I spent 5 nights in Stable when we were house hunting and, as a result, we knew that there was a lot of work to do for us to get it to a state where we were happy for people to stay in.\u00a0 But, as this wasn\u2019t the case just with Stable, in our first 8 months living here in 2015 we spent a lot of time refurbishing all the properties.<\/p>\n

As Stable is our smallest space, which we didn\u2019t think would be occupied as much as the larger g\u00eetes, with time so much against us, we did only sufficient to get it to a stage where we felt it at least reflected the quality of Kergudon.\u00a0 One of the more major tasks we did then was to ask a builder to add a new window as previously the only light came in from the patio-style doors at the front.\u00a0 Our webpage<\/a> and these pictures shows how we made it, but even then knew that there were a number of other things that we wanted to do.\u00a0 Only now has that task come to the top of the list!<\/p>\n

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Having completely emptied the room it was the best time to do what has been the most unpleasant task I have had to do since living here \u2013 the insulation in the loft space.\u00a0 While I have insulated the loft above Hayloft that was relatively easy as there was nothing there initially.\u00a0 Stable however, already had some very old insulation which needed to be removed first and that was nasty!<\/p>\n

The loft itself looked like the barn where the spider had settled in the film Arachnophobia and the insulation was old, nasty and had lots of evidence of historic unpaying guests!\u00a0 To do this I made sure I was fully kitted up in face mask, gloves and full \u2018CSI\u2019 suit and I\u2019m really glad I did.<\/p>\n

Once removed and taken very quickly to the d\u00e9chetterie, laying some new insulation was a relatively easy task and should make a big difference to heating Stable in the spring and autumn.\u00a0 It also allowed me to clean and reconnect all the tubes to the extractor fan.<\/p>\n

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The next task was to remove a small area of old lambris (tongue and groove wood) from one of the internal walls.\u00a0 The walls to\u00a0 create the shower room are covered in a stippled sort of plaster but we wanted to replace this with a more traditional covering – more lambris! Erecting this has been pretty quick, and we have been able to incorporate some better lighting than before, and now just needs painting.<\/p>\n

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Today I started sanding the ceiling which was previously stained dark brown.\u00a0 While this wasn\u2019t awful, it did make the room seem a little dark \u2013 although much improved with our new window \u2013 and we want to paint it a lighter colour.\u00a0 I think this will be another unpleasant job, thankfully no CSI suit needed however, and will mean that the painting should be far better.<\/p>\n

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With Dave\u2019s uncle and aunt here I haven\u2019t been as diligent as I should so progress has been slow but, sadly, they leave us tomorrow morning and I should be able to make fairly rapid progress.<\/p>\n

We have however had confirmation that Garratt is to be a Dad and the coupling we spoke about a few weeks ago has been successful.\u00a0 We understand the puppies are imminent but, in the last week or so, the owner of the bitch has gone radio silent so assume that they aren\u2019t here yet \u2026\u00a0 We\u2019ll let you know but, in the meantime, thought it was a good chance to share a picture of Garratt\u2019s litter and a couple of him as a pup 4 years ago \u2013 just as cute now!<\/p>\n

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Salut.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Firstly, my apologies for not posting a blog last week \u2013 and not saying that I wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Also, don\u2019t get excited with the main picture \u2013 we haven\u2019t got a new puppy!\u00a0 Why, later. I had intended to post something but it would have been fairly short, without many images and run along the lines…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","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\/2884","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=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}