Dear Reader, let this be a lesson to you and serve as a warning. The desires of this man are simple, give me food and give me heat. Put those things together and give me hot food and as Dawn (now my wife) found out you’ll have me forever. Living where we do in France we tend to get power

We made the decision to make Petite Assistant FREE for the festive season to celebrate the house being warm, sealed and ready for us to spend the first Christmas here as a family. This now brings us to an interesting dilemma: “Do we keep it free?“ I initially decided to place it back to the launch price of £1.79 after

During the dismantling of the cow shed we removed 10 timbers that have stood for years. These are approximately 17cm wide by 8.5cm deep by 423cm long (all are approx. as these all vary a little) and we aren’t going to reuse them for the foreseeable future and would rather someone get some use of them. Unfortunately I can’t tell

With the groundwork already done by Dawn & her Dad (Eric) (in this post : HERE) it was now time to get the tiles removed, the roof opened up and wooden beams taken down so we can really start to see the potential in the space we then have and that was a job for me and my Dad! Here

WordPress upgrade to 2.9 broke the site, i’m currently rolling back.. Hold on in there folks ! [UPDATE] – With some great pointers from Twitter it appears that WordPress 2.9 isn’t compatible with SQL4 (thanks for the heads up guys…NOT) .. So be careful with that 2.9 update all. I guess i’ll be staying with 2.8.x for a while until

As you’ll all know architects and architect meetings are the bane of my live and have the ability to get under my skin as i feel it’s a dark art that is often quite closed and the information flow in the beginning just isn’t helpful to the process, but today i feel enlightened once again. We met with the new

With all the work we’ve done this year we thought we’d try and do something we’ve never done before and that’s the pair of us spend some time in the house alone. In all the time we’ve owned the house Dawn and I have never actually spent a single night in the house with just each other. With all the

We’ve achieved a few milestones on the renovation of late with the roof being finished and the dog getting his passport so we can all spend our first christmas as a complete family in the house and to celebrate we wanted to share the love so we’ve made Petite Assistante FREE for the festive period. No catch, no reduced functionality