Sunday 29 March – Shredding the Gnar – den
We hope you are all well, staying active and making the most of the requirement to stay at home. We have received lots of lovely messages of support and peoples’ best wishes – thank you for them all. Thanks especially to a lovely couple who stayed with us for a month last year, Judith and…
Sunday 22 March – Productive Isolation
We hope you are all well. Last week’s blog was a description of limitations implemented in France to try and limit the spread of coronavirus. Since then these have become more stringent with anyone leaving their homes having to carry a certificate stating which of the limited justifications for travelling applies to their journey. Almost…
Sunday 15 March – Interesting Times
Last week’s blog said that, by today, I’d have hoped that both the bathrooms would be finished other than the decoration. I also mentioned that the project was progressing more slowly than I’d have liked. You may know where this is going … The last week has continued to progress Priory, and principally still plumbing. …
Sunday 08 March – Soil Pipe Dream
Apologies for not being able to post a blog last week. I was all ready and prepared but when I tried to upload some images to our website it was obvious there was a problem with our site editor. Our IT department (David) has found a way that I can post while WordPress sorts out…
Sunday 23 February – Seismic changes
Apologies for not posting a blog last week. We, as all of the UK and NW France were in the teeth of Storm Dennis. Thankfully, here at Kergudon we have escaped any significant wind damage and, being high up flooding is never going to be a problem. With the exception of a few hours without…
Sunday 09 February – Slow Progress – but progress
The last week has been one of those frustrating time when, despite working all week, when you look back at what has been achieved you get the feeling that it isn’t as much as we should have! That said, we have generally continued to build rather than demolish, and add to the charm of the…
Sunday 02 February – Plaster bored
Despite mentioning the start of the Six Nations in last week’s blog, having watched the England / France match I won’t be mentioning too much about the game … The week has, inevitably, been focussed on the Priory refurbishment and we have had both our builder and our electrician with us for most of the…
Sunday 26 January – Poor Priory
As hoped at the end of my last blog, the weather for the last 7 days has been a very welcome break to the previous 3 months of generally wet and windy conditions. This has allowed me to complete some outside work as, while we are obviously far from complete in Priory, there is a…
Sunday 19 January – Trenchant Effort
At the end of last week’s blog, I mentioned that the forecast was looking particularly bad for the start of the week just gone, and so it turned out. Storm Brendan arrived on Monday which, despite stronger winds than normal and lots of rain, didn’t prove too disruptive. It was the storm which hit us…