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Removing the infested ceiling…
March 16, 2010 – 11:37 pm | No Comment
Removing the infested ceiling…

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 …

Storm Déjà vu
March 14, 2010 – 2:37 pm | No Comment
Storm Déjà vu

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 …

Winter break over & we’re back!
March 14, 2010 – 10:31 am | No Comment
Winter break over & we’re back!

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 …

Christmas Gallery
January 10, 2010 – 6:46 pm | No Comment
Christmas Gallery

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 …

Romance vs Reality – Log fires
December 30, 2009 – 5:28 pm | No 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 …