{"id":4070,"date":"2020-05-17T16:57:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2020-11-02T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:59:50","slug":"sunday-17th-may-let-there-be-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-17th-may-let-there-be-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 17th May – Let there be Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned at the end of last week\u2019s blog<\/a> that France was beginning to come out of confinement and that we would definitely be able to make progress in Priory.  Thankfully, we have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As movement restrictions were lifted Pascal, our electrician, came at 0830 on Monday morning and has been working all week.  Worryingly, despite trying to contact him, we haven\u2019t heard anything from our plumber, Lee.  We exchanged emails during the confinement and tried again a couple of weeks ago but nothing.  We\u2019re getting concerned for his welfare.  As he sometimes reads our blogs \u2013 Lee, if you\u2019re reading this one, please get in touch, not least to let us know you\u2019re OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pascal has managed to wire everything in now and, while we\u2019re not on mains power as yet, he has used the existing power from our own house to check all the circuits \u2013 and things are looking amazing.  We are especially pleased that our new chandelier works as I really wouldn\u2019t want to climb to the top of the space again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of his largest jobs was installing the new fuse board.  We asked him to put it next to where the old board is, at the top of the stairs, so as he was doing his work a huge snakes\u2019 wedding was being created with the huge numbers of cables required to comply with French regulations.  The new board is much neater but you can see just how many circuits we have had installed to bring Priory into the 21st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We feel it is a big step to see all of the new lighting functioning as, having had the whole g\u00eete rewired we have taken the opportunity to do things exactly as we want and installed a lot of lighting as we feel good lighting can create lots of character, and we have had the switches put in the \u2018right\u2019 places!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of these pictures show our new lighting, although you can also see how much cleaning we have to do before we paint and decorate, but hopefully you agree that, when done, Priory will look fabulous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a new, and separate, power supply we were expecting to be inspected by the electricity provided before they connect us to the grid.  However, Pascal has already received the all-important certificate of conformity required so, with luck, we will be all connected in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Pascal was doing the electrics, I was focussed on installing the kitchen, something I have never done before on my own.  However, I am really pleased with the result so far.  We needed to get the tiling in on the \u2018dry\u2019 side of the kitchen so that, next week, Pascal can do the sockets and switches there and, finally, we have been contacted by Darty who tell us that the cooker and fridge freezer will be delivered next week \u2013 4 months after ordering them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the confinement being eased, we were really grateful to be able to get haircuts, as we both desperately needed one.  Also the slightly odd rule about who could visit the d\u00e9chetterie I mentioned last week was rescinded so we could go and empty the trailer only to fill it up immediately with soil from our friend.  This has allowed us to finish planting the loniceras I started last week which will make Stable B&B<\/a> look amazing when grown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, having planted 63 new hedging plants in the last week, we haven\u2019t had any rain for days and there isn\u2019t any forecast for the next week!  Even the lawn is starting to suffer although we did enjoy an afternoon of sunbathing today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next week is a bit up in the air and depends on hearing from Lee (call us!!) but we\u2019ll find something to do \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c1 beint\u00f4t.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned at the end of last week\u2019s blog that France was beginning to come out of confinement and that we would definitely be able to make progress in Priory.  Thankfully, we have. As movement restrictions were lifted Pascal, our electrician, came at 0830 on Monday morning and has been working all week.  Worryingly, despite…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","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\/4070","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}