Sunday 19 March – Starting to Drought the Predictions
Apologies for not writing a blog last week. The previous week, I said that if the forecast turned out to be accurate, it would mean my work would need to be undercover. Surprisingly(!), the forecast was spot on and the last 2 weeks have been mostly wet and grotty. Not great news for our guests.…
Sunday 05 March – Family Food Fun
There were 2 things I wrote in last week’s blog that I regret now! The first was that we didn’t get too wet on our dog walk last Sunday. While this is technically true, last Monday I started feeling really awful; feverish, achy muscles and generally rubbish. I didn’t think that I had got too…
Sunday 26 February – A Platform to Build From
During the last week, France has raised significant concerns that 2023 will be as dry as the record-breaking droughts experienced last year. The recent winter has been the driest France has experienced in the last 60 years. Météo France said that between 21 January and 21 February there had been no precipitation at all in…
Sunday 19 February – The rest of the year starts here …
A couple of weeks have passed since my last blog, and, from the list of possible reasons when I don’t write, this time we have been away – again, I hear you howl! I know it has only been a couple of weeks since we had our BIG adventure in Argentina, but, obviously, we don’t…
Sunday 29 January – Would Yew Believe it?!
Last week was the first, of what I hope won’t be many weeks, when I didn’t write a blog for 2023. Apologies. You may recall some of the reasons why I don’t write a blog and last week it fell very much into the, I haven’t progressed enough to show any progress. Which, when you…
Sunday 15 January – Boxing Day, well week
Short and (hopefully) sweet this week! I said in last week’s blog that I hadn’t started taking down the Christmas decorations as we still had guests stay with us until last Saturday. Thankfully, it seems that the French don’t have the same tradition of having to take decorations down before Twelfth Night to avoid bad…
Sunday 08 January – The Second Noël
In last week’s blog I resolved (the most appropriate word considering what date it was) to be better at writing my regular blog, 2022 having been fairly poor. So, 2 weeks in I can say I am doing better. One resolution fulfilled at least! This week’s blog however, won’t be especially long, and I am…
Sunday 01 January – Quick as a flash, it was gone
We hope you have all had a very pleasant Christmas doing whatever it is you like doing with people you enjoy doing it with! We had a good Christmas here at Kergudon, David’s Dad joined us which made up for last year’s travel interruptions, and we have had some lovely guests in all of our…
Sunday 18 December – 7 More Sleeps
Last Sunday’s blog said that my focus for this week would be more decorating to ensure that all our Christmas guests have a magical time – and that is pretty much all I’ve been doing and I’m still not finished! In previous years, we have watched some of the television programmes when UK stately homes…