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Welcome to Dordogne Retreat

Thanks for looking at this website. The aim is to document the renovation of our French farmhouse from its purchase in October 2005 to its completion in c2015. Well hopefully before that but we shall see!

New articles are posted as work is done which is primarily over holidays, long weekends etc. So posting can be sporadic! After leaving new articles on the main page for about 4 weeks they are then moved to the relevant section - so please click on the Projects links on the left of the page to explore.

Thanks for visiting, Mark

  • By Mark at 19 Oct 2006 - 10:17
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Website...

Those of you who have visited the site a few times will have noticed some changes, hopefully for the better!

The site is now hosted by an ISP so should be much faster, especially on the photo gallery pages.

Have also stopped updating the blog and am slowly moving over the content to this site, so please check here, not the blog.

Also PLEASE REGISTER it is quite simple and over time some of the content (image galleries) will only be available to registered users (this stops all the web robots finding them and linking them to their search engines).

Also if you are registred you can leave commentsLaughing!

Mark

 

 

  • By Mark at 8 May 2006 - 19:26
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Recycling..... Citroen style

The French aren't always known for their recycling (although probably ahead of the UK!) but on occasions you do see wonderful examples of ingenuity. 

One prime example is not far from us.

I can't help but wonder if they just drove it there one day after failing the French MOT!

Autumn....

We didn't time our visit very well so missed most of the autumn colours in the trees however it was still a lovely site looking down the 'estate' and out over the valley.

The destructive power of Loir....

We have mentioned our ongoing battles with the local Loir population in previous posts on the site. Apart from not wanting the little critters runing around in the attic the real reason for wanting them 'moved on' is that they dig into stone walls to make their nests and can cause the walls to collapse.

This is the end wall of one of our neighbours barns, caused by Loir!

By the fire....

In France for a few days R&R we settled into a routine of sitting down in front of the fire late each afternoon with a glass of Winter Pimms and suitable snacks.... it was wonderful.

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