Well 2010 comes to a close and now 2011 is upon us we are faced with a new set of challenges. 2011 for us was going to be a holding year, with planning permission granted and a new baby on the way we’d decided to stop the renovation, save the money to get more done in one go and enjoy

Or in English : The building permit is GRANTED! FANTASTIC! It’s been a long hard road and we’ve made many mistakes but today we had some fantastic news and now we can really start to get together full quotes, project plans and time scales to turn our current 1 bedroom flat into a rather large open plan 3 bedroom family

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words and we’ve got lots to tell you, almost too much to be honest and that’s what has caused the delay to posting so it’s time to play a little catch up and also unviel what’s been keeping us busy since March

It’s been far to long for me, this is my first visit to the house since we left the house at Christmas & boy have I missed it! A long drive last night after work in London meant we arrived here at 03:30am French time, so it’s a day to recover, appricate the house, land and scenary and then i’ll

WOW! As we had hoped we’ve had a flurry of activity at the house & things have really moved forward. It’s hard to know where to start so i figured i’d give you a little overview while i write up the larger posts. So here’s what’s new : Bathroom now finished & painted, there’s even a toilet roll holder to

One of the things that got completed last year was Schubert’s “Pet Passport“. The UK has some of the strictest laws when it comes to taking pets in and out of the country to and from Europe and previously Schubert hasn’t been compliant with these rules. When going through the pet passport process there’s plenty of waiting around while injections,

Well that was a bit of a shocking phone call! There was no paperwork, no inspection, no photographs just a chat on the phone with some figures from our builder with a cost to repair and then a “Yes Mrs Caller that’s completed, the money will be in your account on Monday”… WHAT WHAT

Almost a week in and things are starting to shape up very nicely indeed

Have you ever done a job that you’ve always known needs doing & once you’ve started it you wonder why you’d left it so long? Well the removal of the ceiling in the old bedrooms was definitely one of them jobs

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&#