Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud….
Mentioned the heavy rain while infilling the terrace but forgot to add the picture of the mud bath we created with the trailer. Have seen thicker and deeper mud at … Read More
Author: Mark Johnson
The Terrace – Part 2
The prime objective this trip was to make progress on the terrace and get it into a usable, if not finished, state for the summer.Like the area around the pool … Read More
New electricity supply
Not sure if I have mentioned it before but the hamlet got together (all three households) and complained about the electricity supply. Our Dutch neighbour’s new kiln couldn’t get up … Read More
Fête des Mères
May 25th was French Mother’s Day! We weren’t aware of this fact when we travelled down to Objat for the regular Sunday market but on the way we spotted a … Read More
Lots of rain and a bit of warmth equals…….
a lot of growth in the garden! The grass was over two feet high and even with the tractor took a few hours to cut, would have taken days otherwise. … Read More
France – the best place to live….
International Living carry out an annual survey of countries ranking them in several categories to generate a quality of life Index. Yet again France has come out as the … Read More
Before and After 2005 – 2008
Crawling through the photo archives it was intersting to come across a picture of the back of the house before we bought it. Today it certainly looks very different but … Read More
April 2008
While the primary reason for this months visit was to see the progress on the door installations and start work on the terrace we did manage to fit in one … Read More
The Terrace – Part 1
With the doors close to being finished the next major project is to build the terrace so that you can emerge from any of the new sets of doors, go … Read More
New doors – Part 8 – finished!
While it has been very helpful to have photos emailed from friends on the progress of the installation of the doors there is nothing like seeing for yourself. So after … Read More