Sunday 27 December – Happy Christmas, Silly ChristM&S
I have to say, I am surprised I am able to write a blog today. Having seen the recent forecasts and the predicted strength of the winds we should have experienced in Storm Bella, I had every expectation that we would have lost at least power if not just internet in the carnage that could…
Sunday 20 December – Normal service will be resumed …
In my last blog, I gave you a promise that I would post a blog today. Perhaps that was rash of me and should be treated as a ‘politician’s promise’! I said also there that was lots to do before we wind down for Christmas and that, with the travel restrictions lifted, we hoped to…
Sunday 13 December (Sort of!) – Winter Wonderland
Apologies for not posting a blog last night. I was a bit behind my ‘wanted to have completed by now’ list (I have lots of lists!) and wanted to wait until we had finished decorating our own home. The last blog, 2 weeks ago, said that I would have more splitting and shredding to be…
Sunday 29 November – Bucking. The Trend.
At the end of my last blog I said that this week’s work would be focussed on completing the clear up of the ash trees already felled before felling some more. It also said that the weather was looking good to do that most of the week and, unusually for us, we actually stuck to…
Sunday 22 November – Ash Wednesday (& Thursday, & Friday …)
Apologies for not posting a blog last week. I felt that the previous week hadn’t been as productive as we’d have liked. Perhaps we have developed a confinement malaise which would be disappointing as we got so much done in the spring lockdown! Maybe this is tied in with the autumn days getting shorter and…
Sunday 08 November – On a slow laundry cycle
If you are reading this blog on our website you may have noticed some changes! In my last blog, which I can’t link to as it is on the old site, I mentioned that a project Dave had been working on for a number of weeks was about to come to fruition. This new website…
Sunday 25 October – Busy, busy
I finished last week’s blog saying that we were expecting a busy week as it is the start of the Toussaint holiday in France. It turned out to be so and we were delighted to be completely full last night with 16 people, our maximum capacity, across the 4 gîtes. Today Stable is changing occupants…
Sunday 18 October – The Heat is On
In last week’s blog I mentioned that, if a company showed up when they said they would, we were having something lovely done in our own home. This would focus my efforts for the first couple of days of the week. The ‘something lovely’ was having a new boiler installed and my efforts would be…
Sunday 11 October – Canal Turn
My last blog said that the preceding couple of weeks weren’t perhaps the most productive of my time but that David had a week off work, from Brest at least, so I would have a work mate and we may be able to get more achieved. I’m glad I said ‘may’ and not ‘would’! Who…