Whale Saint Vallee des Saints

Sunday 6 October – Saintly Patience

At the end of last week’s blog, I said that the forecast was looking reasonably good which should allow lots of progress  to be made and that David’s Dad was joining us so we could also do some social activities. I certainly managed to make some progress when the weather allowed.  Sadly, the same could…

Pool house progressing

Sunday 29 September – Travel Changes

At the end of last week’s blog I said that the forecast was predicted to become more Breton and more autumnal, and so it turned out. Monday was actually the last of the decent weather so I managed to get a bonus afternoon continuing to cut the boundary hedge behind Hayloft that I started last…

Garratt's new spot at the pool

Sunday 22 September – Indian Summer (for a week!)

For the first time in a couple of months, enough has happened in the last week for me to write a blog after 7 days (you’ll note I didn’t say ‘I’d done enough …’ 😉) The week started slowly as I had to take my car to the garage in Brest on Monday to have…

Auberge du Menez

Sunday 15 September – La Rentrée

Another 2 weeks have passed since my last blog despite me saying that our good friends had left so we should be able to get back to some project work. The start of September is culturally the start of everything in France.  The start of a new school year; a new political year (which will…

Lac du Drennec beach

Sunday 01 September – Flash, Bang, Wallop

And quick as a flash we’re in September.  How did that happen?! When I wrote my last blog, 2 weeks ago, I mentioned that we had just had some very good friends arrive with us for their summer hols and we may have lots of distractions.   The fact that there wasn’t a blog last week…

Garratt and Brandon August 2024

Sunday 18 August – Make and Mend

Re-reading the blog I wrote 2 weeks ago, I could almost copy and paste the first 5 paragraphs to summarise the last couple of weeks and explain why, despite my assertion in the final paragraph, I didn’t write a blog last Sunday. Our progress on a number of things however, has been hampered to some…

Testcard

Sunday 04 August – We’re still alive!

I can’t believe either that we have already entered August, or that I haven’t written a blog for 3 weeks with my last being on French Fête Nationale.  This will be pretty short too but normal service will be resumed. Generally when I don’t write a blog it is for one of a few reasons. …

Plougasnou walk

Sunday 14 July – A lack of sporting effort on my part!

Well that has been quite a dramatic couple of weeks for both the UK and France politically, leading to one very late night / early morning, but at least there have been some fabulous sporting distractions taking place to take our minds off global events. I can’t say with much honesty that we have had…

Granary looking good

Sunday 30 June – A Stain on our Reputation!

At the end of my blog last Sunday I said that we had lots of plans for the coming week but we’ll have to see what would be achieved. In the end I have been busy but, as is often the case, the job I started which I hoped would take 3 days, ended up…