Sunday 29 March – Let there be Light
Each week in my blogs I’m pleased that I’m able to say that we have completed the next big step in the pool house. This week is no exception and, arguably, we have completed 2 big steps. Admittedly, the first was less than a day’s work as all the preparation had happened during the construction…
Sunday 22 March – A week on the tiles
We have had a fairly productive week but managed to balance it with a really relaxed weekend. At the end of last week’s blog, I said the forecast was for the first fabulous week of spring weather and, amazingly for some of the forecasters’ accuracy, that is what we enjoyed. I also said that I…
Sunday 15 March – It’ll be all white on the night
A short one this week and not so many pictures – sorry! In last week’s blog, I mentioned I had one day of work in the pool house before I could start painting the undercoats and making better progress, and I planned to do that when our guests left us on Tuesday. Before I could…
Sunday 08 March – Marching On (Slowly …)
It has been far longer than I’d hoped since I wrote my last blog and there is far less to show you as progress too. This isn’t that we’ve been idle but more as a result of being far busier at this time of year than previously in the gîtes and, having guests that want…
Sunday 08 February – Messy Business
I started off last week’s blog saying that it would be a short one as I had been focussed on a single task – plasterboarding. This one is much the same and so the photos haven’t changed that much! Last week’s blog said that I had completed about 80% of the job and I had…
Sunday 01 February – Plaster Bored
Today’s will be a short blog as most of my productive time has been focussed on a single task which, thankfully, is the one that I said I would be progressing in last week’s blog – plaster boarding the interior of the pool house. The week began with work done principally by someone else, but…
Sunday 25 January – Raining Champions
Last week, I suggested that I might have some excuses for not starting back with project work during the week however, no excuses required and the project work has begun again despite having experienced one of the wettest weeks I can recall since we moved here. That said, thankfully the week started dry and allowed…
Sunday 18 January – Four Seasons in One Week
Having promised to write blogs more frequently than my average last year, and not to have periods of 4 weeks without writing anything, I thought I’d better write something today having already missed last week! I made a number of statements in my last blog for what I would do and what we were hoping…
Sunday 4th January – Bonne année à tous !
Happy New Year to you all. David and I hope you have all had a pleasant Christmas and welcomed the New Year in as you would wish! Apologies that I haven’t posted a blog since December 7th, not even to pass on our Christmas wishes. Reading back through all our 2025 blogs, which I do…