Sunday 18 June – Mauvaises Herbes
You may have seen that I didn’t post a blog last Sunday – sorry. We had had a productive week but not necessarily on things that made for great pictures or an interesting read! Unfortunately, even now, I haven’t taken as many ‘before’ photos of what we have achieved. The last blog said that we…
Sunday 4 June – Stable Reception
Last week has been another of fabulous warm, dry weather. After such a soggy, and relatively chilly, start to the year it has been very welcome and allowed us to continue with Stable’s façade that I began the previous week. Of course, it does mean that now, after 2 weeks without rain, it will only…
Sunday 28 May – A More Productive Week for Yew
At the end of last week’s blog I mentioned that the forecast was looking much more favourable for a productive week, and, thankfully, so it turned out to be. It was, by some significant margin, the warmest and driest week we have had this year with no rain at all since last Sunday, and so…
Sunday 21 May – Peed and Weed
I don’t know where the last 2 weeks have gone! I didn’t blog last Sunday as the weather had been so poor in the preceding week we hadn’t achieved too much. As it had continued to be wet and not very cold, everything continued to grow furiously, especially the lawns that we had scarified and…
Sunday 7 May – Happy & Glorious
Last week’s blog showed the good progress the roofers had made in a single week replacing Stable’s roof. Even with last Monday being a public holiday, they have now almost completed the job – just a couple of finishing touches to be done on Tuesday – tomorrow is also a public holiday! We are very…
Sunday 30 April – Omelette and Eggs
At the end of last week’s blog, I said that we hoped to be able to start a major project that we have wanted (needed?) to do for a couple of years, or at least have someone else start the project for us. The project was to replace the roof on Stable, our chambre d’hôte…
Sunday 23 April – Dig For Victory
Last week’s blog ended with the hope that the weather would remain fine (as it had been forecast) and, if 2018 was any sort of pattern when I was last digging trenches in front of the garage, then we could expect some days of 20 degree heat. Thankfully, at least until today, we have continued…
Sunday 16 April – Whisper it Quietly, Spring may have finally arrived!
Re-reading the last blog I posted 2 weeks ago, there are some similarities to what I said then to what has occurred in the last couple of weeks. Then, I said that we had just endured Storm Mathis which brought strong winds but no damage. Last week the forecast was for Storm Noa to pass…
Sunday 2 April – For the Love of Dogs
About the only thing that has changed since my last blog are the clocks! I ended the blog saying that the following week’s forecast was looking a bit iffy, but hoped that the dry breaks between the rain would be getting longer. You may have guessed from my lack of blog last week – they…