Category: General

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

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

Inquisitive little fellow(ess)…..    

With work scheduled to start this week on the house (depending on the weather of course) Monday duly delivered a few snow showers clearly to remind us that winter hasn’t … Read More

Our sojourn to the Dordogne is coming to its inevitable close and in the last two days we have been busy finishing up little jobs and cleaning and packing ready … Read More

Most of the drive resembles a building yard at the moment as we store deliveries of various building material and also use it to mix concrete and mortar. There is … Read More

A couple of weeks before the summer invasion we had wire mesh installed above each of the velux windows. It turns out that the mounting kit for the windows has … Read More

This summer we are trying to maximise the use of the house, work permitting. Half of the family will have been here for 5 weeks by the time we leave, … Read More

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