Just a very quick message to say that we know we’ve not updated for a week and this is simply due to the fact we got MARRIED this past weekend and has things on our mind They’ll be a flood of updates soon as suppliers from the home building show are now starting to come back to us so they’ll

When we bought they house the first thing we decided to do while we designed the renovation was to remove the wall in the bedroom area’s that created two rather small bedrooms. While in the longer term this new room will be removed altogether for now we want to create a temporary bedroom of a decent size and there was

Buoyed by the success of the chimney cleaning Dad and I couldn’t help but get inquisitive and want to see what was behind the 70′s wood cladding. After all I’m 34 and I was a kid the last time this style was in. We’d initially decided to wait until the morning to do any more but one thing lead to

Just a quick reminder that this weekend is the London than The Homebuilding & Renovating Show at the Excel Center. We’ll be there hoovering up as much information as we can for the blog and of course our own renovation. It’s worth noting that the current FREE TICKET OFFER is still available on the website. These free tickets are for

As with all houses in France the chimney must be cleaned every year and a certificate issued if you are going to live in the property or your house insurance isn’t valid. Well our house had been empty now for some 5 years and after failing miserably to get hold of a chimney sweeper local or otherwise it was time

We’ve got no further news for you about the car but we’ve now got all our photo’s together to show you the little “unexpected gem” we have in the barn. If you’ve not seen the first post it’s HERE ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ If anyone knows a Citroen dealer or club in England or France that

We’ll here is a novel way I’ve started to learn French and the best part about it is that there are no book or writing, and in around 8 hours you’ll start to feel more confident with people around you speaking French and speaking French yourself. I’ve got the Michel Thomas Foundation French audio book from Amazon and have burned

We just wanted to say THANK YOU!. Our first month with Google AdWords running and you’ve been kind enough to continue clicking the ads you’re interested in and this has earned us $48.10 towards the renovation. I know it’s not a massive amount of money, but with the small amount of content we have here and the repeat visitors it’s