The pool part deux
(Note: this is a long post, please click ‘Read More‘ at the bottom to see the whole story!) We were up ready at 8.30 for the pool people to arrive … Read More
Category: 2006
Humans 10, Loirs 0
We still have not got rid of the Loirs despite having ‘dealt’ with 10 of them now. They appear to be happlily living between the insulation and the tiles, we … Read More
Bedrooms 2 and 3
Three days of the past week have been taken up with work on two of the new bedrooms. The lower walls were insulated (2 days) and the ceilings insulated and … Read More
The dining room
What was bedroom 2 downstairs has now been changed into a dining room (and we entertained our dutch neighbours last night), the plan is to knock the wall down and … Read More
A day at Ikea….
Tuesday was a day off, we drove to Bordeaux (2 hours) arriving at lunchtime to a very busy and packed town centre where we failed to find a car parking … Read More
Happy Anniversary!
It is one year to the day that we became owners of our farmhouse! We opened a bottle of Chablis in celebration (6 Euros from the local supermarket), and a … Read More
Swimming Pool…
Work starting soon…. Update 26/10 – Excavation man turned up today to check if he could get his big digger (3m wide) down the lane, the nnswer is no! He … Read More
New Kitchen window
The ‘simple’ job of installing the second new window in the kitchen was undertaken today. A new main oak beam was required just like the first window. The … Read More
Tableau….. all finished (for now)
Todays jobs included finishing installing the new Tableau and making it look neat and tidy (unlike how we left it yesterday!):
Garden Renovation – part 2
Couple of more pictures of the garden after yesterdays tractor activity, these show the main area that was sorted out as well as the area at the bottom of the … Read More