It’s spring! With the new season we thought we’d have a spring clean to the web site. Since we are now making great strides on the house we thought it was time to brighten up the site, and make the front pages more like a magazine due to the amount of content we are getting ready to post

This week my father and I are over in the house for seven days, this will actually be the longest time we have spent here in one swoop and it’s borne out of the frustration that my wife and I have that we just can’t tinker with stuff on the odd weekend. A quick recap : While we are finalising

Trying to find a design of the house that both me and the wife can agree on is like pulling teeth, let alone getting it past the planning authority in France. With the help of David @ Midwest Render our forever patient draughtsman we are constantly taking his plans and drawing on them with pen, scanning them in and sending

As the house plans are taking shape (see post on latest ideas) we are wanting to again do some solar surveys and this is turning into a bad case of Déjà vu and we aren’t getting anywhere, so here is my plea. What I’m looking for is a solar panel the size of an A4 piece of paper (21cm x

Well the photos are in and the damage assessed and here are some images for you. We have an insurance assessor coming to the house the week beginning March 9th when we’ll be over there so we’ll keep you posted