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<\/a><\/p>\nOur wings have been a little clipped this week as you may have heard that there is currently industrial action taking place throughout France which has led to blockades of oil refineries and a shortage of fuel in some areas.\u00a0 The action is over new employment legislation the French government are trying to introduce but the impact is that some filling stations don\u2019t have any petrol.\u00a0 Thankfully, we haven\u2019t yet experienced too many problems and the small petrol station in Sizun appears to still be receiving deliveries.\u00a0 However, it has meant that we could stay home and work on our projects and so we have been able to achieve quite a lot during the week including, as I know it has become a bit of a running theme \/ joke, making significant progress on the boot room conversion.<\/p>\n
From last week\u2019s blog<\/a> you will have seen the state the boot room space had become as it was about our last dumping ground for things.\u00a0 This proved to be problematic when I was working during the week as I had to climb and clamber around things \u2013 most of them being the material and items we had brought to do the job!\u00a0 However other things that I (re)found were the last CRT television that we took out of the gites, an old baby high chair and various other bits of junk that should have gone to the decheterie months ago!<\/p>\n Not being a professional carpenter the conversion work has taken me slightly longer than it would a proper joiner (notwithstanding working round \u2018stuff\u2019) and I am probably over-engineering much of the work as I don\u2019t know the cheats and short cuts that others may use, but I am really pleased with what I have done so far.<\/p>\n I have started with the ceiling and, being a boot \/ drying room which needs to be able to be heated I have stuffed so much insulation in between the rafters there is a risk that it will be warmer than our own house in winter!\u00a0 I had a friend upgrade the electrics so that there was a separate feed and switch in the room but I have wired in some ceiling lights; cut through a, non-load bearing, joist and screwed in a level frame so that I could clad the ceiling in classic French lambris \u2013 to be painted!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n More progress next week on the boot and rod racks and installing a cabinet, sink and washer \/ dryer space.<\/p>\n We continued working in the garden last week including a morning tidying around Stable which welcomed its first guest of the season on Wednesday.\u00a0 Just a few hours tidying round has made a massive difference and we think that Stable looks better now outside than it has done since we arrived.<\/p>\n David has started to dig another flower bed in the garden between Hayloft and Stable, an area we call the orchard – although there are only 4 very large and old so not very productive cider apple trees.\u00a0 We already have a number of shrubs for the bed and we will attend the fete at the Morlaix Down\u2019s Syndrome school as we did last June<\/a> where we will buy lots more.\u00a0 Although I can\u2019t help feeling it will just need more weeding!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n