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Romance vs Reality – Log fires
December 30, 2009 – 5:28 pm | One Comment
Romance vs Reality – Log fires

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 …

Petite Assistante gets AdMob’d… Maybe
December 29, 2009 – 8:14 pm | No Comment
Petite Assistante gets AdMob’d… Maybe

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 …

Old wooden beams – Free to a good home!
December 29, 2009 – 2:03 pm | 3 Comments
Old wooden beams – Free to a good home!

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 …

Cowshed gets dismantled
December 28, 2009 – 10:16 pm | One Comment
Cowshed gets dismantled

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 …

Wordpress 2.9 you broke my site !
December 28, 2009 – 9:01 pm | No Comment
Wordpress 2.9 you broke my site !

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 …

Architect meeting & a stroke of good fortune
December 28, 2009 – 6:20 pm | No Comment
Architect meeting & a stroke of good fortune

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 …

Our 1st French Christmas
December 27, 2009 – 1:03 pm | No Comment
Our 1st French Christmas

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 …

Petite Assistante FREE for XMAS !!!
December 11, 2009 – 1:47 pm | No Comment
Petite Assistante FREE for XMAS !!!

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 …