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2010 The best of years & the worst of years.

Well 2010 comes to a close and now 2011 is upon us we are faced with a new set of challenges. 2011 for us was going to be a holding year, with planning permission granted and a new baby on the way we’d decided to stop the renovation, save the money to get more done in one go and enjoy

2010 The best of years & the worst of years. 2010 The best of years & the worst of years.

Le permis de construire est ACCORDE.

Or in English : The building permit is GRANTED! FANTASTIC! It’s been a long hard road and we’ve made many mistakes but today we had some fantastic news and now we can really start to get together full quotes, project plans and time scales to turn our current 1 bedroom flat into a rather large open plan 3 bedroom family

Le permis de construire est ACCORDE. Le permis de construire est ACCORDE.

Here’s what’s been going on…

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words and we’ve got lots to tell you, almost too much to be honest and that’s what has caused the delay to posting so it’s time to play a little catch up and also unviel what’s been keeping us busy since March

Here’s what’s been going on… Here’s what’s been going on…

We’re back out here

It’s been far to long for me, this is my first visit to the house since we left the house at Christmas & boy have I missed it! A long drive last night after work in London meant we arrived here at 03:30am French time, so it’s a day to recover, appricate the house, land and scenary and then i’ll

We’re back out here We’re back out here
It’s been busy!

WOW! As we had hoped we’ve had a flurry of activity at the house & things have really moved forward. It’s hard to know where to start so i figured i’d give you a little overview while i write up the larger posts. So here’s what’s new : Bathroom now finished & painted, there’s even a toilet roll holder to

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Audio Post –March 2010- Just a quick heads up.

I just can’t believe it’s been so long between posts (Sorry) so I thought i’d better let you know we are still alive & we’ve made the most of the winter break. They’ll be a full podcast very shortly but here’s a taste of what’s to come. Here’s there low quality embedded audio and i’ll be publishing this via iTunes

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Schubert meets the cows!

One of the things that got completed last year was Schubert’s “Pet Passport“. The UK has some of the strictest laws when it comes to taking pets in and out of the country to and from Europe and previously Schubert hasn’t been compliant with these rules. When going through the pet passport process there’s plenty of waiting around while injections,

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Super quick insurance settlement!

Well that was a bit of a shocking phone call! There was no paperwork, no inspection, no photographs just a chat on the phone with some figures from our builder with a cost to repair and then a “Yes Mrs Caller that’s completed, the money will be in your account on Monday”… WHAT WHAT

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Things are progressing nicely.

Almost a week in and things are starting to shape up very nicely indeed

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