{"id":3211,"date":"2020-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-05-january-new-year-new-projects\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:53","slug":"sunday-05-january-new-year-new-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-05-january-new-year-new-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 05 January – New Year, New Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year to everyone.\u00a0 We hope that you all marked the arrival of 2020 as you would wish and the New Year has begun well.<\/p>\n

We have had a gentle week and saw the New Year in with our guests in Priory who invited us for a few drinks which, inevitably, led to us staying for midnight! Thanks to them.<\/p>\n

Things have calmed down here, guest-wise, with the last leaving yesterday morning and we are back to just the 2 of us.\u00a0 That has meant that the work has started in earnest but more of that later.<\/p>\n

I mentioned last week<\/a> that the last blog of the year has traditionally been a summary of all we have achieved I the previous 12 months but that I hadn\u2019t been back through my blogs to remind myself (we find it so easy to get confused about what we have done when!)\u00a0 I hope you don\u2019t mind but I thought I\u2019d do so today.<\/p>\n

Before I re-read the blogs I thought it would be obvious we have had a work-year of 2 halves.\u00a0 I knew that the autumn had been a lot less productive than we\u2019d have liked, and previous years, as the weather had been so wet.\u00a0 What I had forgotten was that the first half of the year was the complete opposite with exceptionally dry weather and we were concerned for the garden as our water butts ran dry.<\/p>\n

The year started with completing my new man shed which, on New Year\u2019s Day 2019 was really only a wooden frame open to the skies.\u00a0 Finishing the building was a relatively quick task and allowed me to try new skills, including rendering the walls, but fitting it out and filling it with my things took a bit longer \u2026<\/p>\n

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The finished result has proven a real benefit throughout the year providing me with a larger and much more organised space to work.\u00a0 It has also provided Mouse with a drier and warmer space to live and have a permanent home.<\/p>\n

\"Mouse<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the projects I was able to complete in the shed was building a new bar for the games room.\u00a0 You may recall we bought an old kitchen island off the internet and had to drive all the way to St. Malo to collect it.\u00a0 Having done so we initially thought it had been a complete waste of money although, having been able to adapt and use certain parts of it, it was the right thing to do.\u00a0 It has also seen a lot of use since its completion and, we think, makes the games room even more fun to spend time in.<\/p>\n

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In the late spring we had the opportunity to do something that we had wanted to complete for a couple of years \u2013 refurbish our chambre d\u2019h\u00f4te, Stable B&B<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stable was the last of our accommodation we completed in 2015.\u00a0 While we had greatly improved things, we still had thoughts of making it better yet which we managed to realise this year.<\/p>\n

From:<\/p>\n

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A, well many, coats of white paint to the ceiling; a painted bed frame and new headboard; new shelving to house the fridge, microwave and various deco items; and a new lambris wall with better lighting has made a huge difference and we are even happier with the space.\u00a0 Most pleasingly we have had many more guests stay in Stable including 9 nights over Christmas and New Year.<\/p>\n

\"Stable<\/a>\"Stable<\/a><\/p>\n

Outside, we have achieved some major tasks the largest of which was to clear the old chicken run and grade the bank at the rear.\u00a0 This was made far easier with our part-acquisition of a mini-digger which was good fun to operate and will get a lot more use in the coming years.<\/p>\n