Sunday 19 June – Summer?
Sunday 19 June – Summer? That will teach me to write in last week’s blog that the hot and sunny weather has made cutting the new flower bed more difficult as, almost ever since the blog was published it has been raining and very un-June-like weather. Of the three tasks I had listed that I…
Sunday 12 June – Monsieur Brandon est arrivé
As predicted I wasn’t able to post a blog last week as it was just such an exciting (and busy) day but we have had a very busy, productive (and expensive!) couple of weeks. At the start of the first week we decided to honour the UK public holiday, and enjoy the amazingly hot weather,…
Sunday 29 May – Boot Room progress!!
At last spring has arrived in St. Cadou and we have been enjoying some glorious days of hot weather and long warm evenings allowing us to have our first BBQ of the season (with our newly repaired BBQ) and commission our replacement chiminea. Long may it last! Our wings have been a little clipped this…
Sunday 22 May – Spring, Apparently!
Apologies for posting my blog late. At this time of year we always try and make the most of the light evenings and work until quite late – especially when the weather is dry which sadly hasn’t happened so much in the last week! This week has been very mixed and weather affected. However, for…
Sunday 15 May – Slow Progress …
Despite my comments in last week’s blog that we haven’t progressed as many of our projects as we would have liked in the previous 3 weeks, all for good reason, this past week probably hasn’t been as productive as it should have been either so this will be a short blog and I’m afraid pretty…
Sunday 8 May – Start of the Season
Since writing my last blog, which generated lots of kind comments from people following my short stint in hospital (thank you to everyone for their thoughts) another 3 weeks have flown past and I STILL haven’t started my Boot Room project!! The reasons for the delay in putting finger to button are varied but it…
Sunday 17th April – Bonne Santé
In last week’s blog, I said that I hoped to be able to start the next ‘major’ project this week which is to convert the old ‘Mouse House’ into our new boot and drying room. I have achieved nothing – although this time think I have a pretty valid reason. When I wrote last week’s blog I…
Sunday 10 April – Spoiled for Culinary Choice
I mentioned in last week’s blog that our work programme for the week was going to be very weather dependent and include preparing Granary for guests who arrived on Friday. The weather was suitably spring like with just about every condition you would expect from warm sunshine to bursts of heavy rain and hail. This…
Sunday 3rd April
I mentioned at the end of last week’s blog that we were waiting with trepidation for the arrival of Storm Katie that was passing up the channel over Sunday night into Monday morning and we had battened down the hatches in anticipation. Unfortunately, we hadn’t battened all of the hatches down and we suffered a…