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…
Sunday 12 January – No Going Back
I mentioned at the end of last week’s blog that once we had completed taking down all of the Christmas decorations we would start emptying Priory of all its furniture and furnishings in preparation for its refurbishment. And this is exactly what we have been doing this week. We did manage to pack away all…
Sunday 05 January – New Year, New Projects
Happy New Year to everyone. We hope that you all marked the arrival of 2020 as you would wish and the New Year has begun well. We have had a gentle week and saw the New Year in with our guests in Priory who invited us for a few drinks which, inevitably, led to us…
Sunday 29 December – Bonne année
Normally in this last blog post of the year, I would do a quick summary of the work and projects we have completed in the last 12 months. With such a damp autumn I am worried that the list maybe a shorter one this year than previously but, not having had the chance to go…
Sunday 22 December – Deck the Halls
We’re back. I mentioned in my last, misdated, blog that there wouldn’t be much progress at Kergudon for a couple of weeks and indeed there hasn’t. The reason is that David and I have taken a short break (I won’t use the term holiday!) back in the UK on a pre-Christmas tour of friends and…
Sunday 01 November – Fire & Ice-ing
A very brief blog this week as we have not completed too many tasks at Kergudon and the autumn has continued to be as unproductive at the end as it was at the start! I mentioned last week that a repair I had tried to make with a dishwasher – our own – hadn’t…
Sunday 24 November – Chop, chop, mow
Last week’s blog started with our frustration that the weather this autumn has been wet, really wet, and ended with the slight hope that there would be a short break in the near-continuous deluge. Thankfully, it turned out that the start of the week remained dry for 3 whole days! This meant that, while the…