It’s hard to really explain how challenging cooking on a very old natural gas cooker can be for 3 adults.  Not having any space to move pans around normally means everything is cooked in one pan and you’re never really feeling the cooking love especially as the “cooker” is on wheels and the only storage you have are plastic bags

Given the “credit crunch” and the fact that we are going to change our renovation lans there are nothing i like to hear more than “FREE” and that’s exactly what we have here. Now it’s no secret that our plans for the major renovation will have to wait due to the awful €/£ rate so we’ve decided to rip out

I suppose it’s about time we discussed the £ in free fall against the € and how it is affecting us and the renovation. On November 5th 2006 we signed our Comprime De Vant and all told including fees we paid €101,000 and we got our mortgage from Credit Agricole at £1 = €1.43. At this rate in GBP the

OK I know this is going to be a bit of a rant but we had the unfortunate requirement to fly to Tours rather than take the Eurostar to Paris and the TGV to Nevers and that means flying with dreaded Ryan Air. Now Tours is 3 1/2 hours away from from our house in-fact it’s basically Le Mans and

So we are starting to learn FAST that thing in France are ALWAYS more expensive and take forever to get done, even then they aren’t necessarily done right. Here’s our story of trying to use our first French tradesman : As you can see from the photo on the right the “Grange” is missing some shutters and this is causing