In the grand scheme of things with the damage and loss of life these large storms in France have caused we’ve got to think of ourselves as very lucky. This time we got away with only minor property damage but again it’s the roofs on the barn & grange that have suffered&#

Firstly: Thanks for hanging in there! I know thing have been more than a little quiet on the site and that’s simply because there’s not been a lot going on with the renovation, due to the weather in France. The good news however is we’ve not just sat back, we’ve been planning, organising & generally beavering away, and next week

I briefly posted about this at the time but then we did no more tweeting or posting since we just decided to switch off and enjoy the time at the house. A few things about this trip were special, this was our first ever Christmas at the house, previously it would have been far to cold in the house (with

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