Sunday 13 November – To Do-ing
As anticipated at the end of last week’s blog, the weather was considerably wetter and colder than we had enjoyed previously which has meant we have made much more limited progress on our garage than the previous week. It has however allowed us to focus on other tasks on our ever expanding ‘To Do’ list…
Sunday 06 November – Getting into Hot Water
This week has again been entirely focussed on the main project – the garage – and, while we haven’t enjoyed such amazing weather we have been able to make more good progress and, on 2 of the garage bays, we have got the wooden frame up to roof level. At the end of Day 1…
Sunday 30 October – Season of Mortar and Mellow Fruitful Progress
Last week’s blog said that we had sat down and generated a ‘To Do’ list for the next 12 months which stood at 103 separate tasks. This week we have worked on a number of these items and have managed to get that list to … 112!! Trouble being that we manage to think of…
Sunday 23 October – Making Concrete Plans
As I mentioned in last week’s blog, this week has seen some significant progress with the garage and we are definitely now committed to at least the shape! You may recall that I chose to dig all of the foundations manually (we had the time and it seemed like the sensible option at that point)…
Sunday 16 October – Holidays are Coming …
Sunday 16 October – Holidays are Coming … I know most people probably won’t want reminding of this, but we are now over half way through October and there are only a couple of months left until we are at Christmas again! Looking online it tells me that there are only 69 days left to…
Sunday 02 October – Dig for Victory!
A much shorter blog this week (perhaps you will be relieved to hear!) As we have not been hosting guests this week we have been able to progress our garage project albeit slowly while we dodge in and out of the spring-like showers. At the start of the week I had only managed to dig…
Sunday 25 September – Research Trips
First, I should probably apologise for not posting a blog last week. We had been hosting David’s uncle and aunt who had only visited Brittany once many years before we moved here despite being big fans of seafood. Since we bought Kergudon they have fallen in love with the region and we are delighted that they…
Sunday 11 September – Feeling Blue …
As I look back on the past week it seems as though I have spent all of my time painting, or if not actually applying paint, then doing the preparatory work required to do so. In last week’s blog I said that we were going to paint much of the exterior wood around Kergudon the…
Sunday 04 September – Not too Chablis a week
Sunday 04 September – Not too Chablis a week You may remember that we were very disappointed with the August weather last year as, while supposed to be the height of summer, it was a very damp and blustery month when we felt we were constantly apologising to our guests. Thankfully this year’s August ended…