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

I just can’t believe it’s been so long between posts (Sorry) so I thought i’d better let you know we are still alive & we’ve made the most of the winter break. They’ll be a full podcast very shortly but here’s a taste of what’s to come. Here’s there low quality embedded audio and i’ll be publishing this via iTunes

It’s finally launch day! After being held up in the application process that is Apple we are finally REALLY happy to announce the instant availability of PETITE ASSISTANTE in the App store in iTunes and on your iPhone or iPod touch. The video above shows you some basic functionality of the app running & how to use it just to

This is the one we’ve both dreaded, the episode where we try and talk French architect, bureaucracy and our current experiences… This tips Lee over the edge!  No worries though we found the beep effect in Garage Band but it also drew some angry responses on Twitter regarding my “Architects are the problem” tweet that was sent out with it,

To make way for the new floor we are planning to put in requires the creation of one large open space in what we call “The Barn” . This is the space to the right of the living quarters which currently incorporates our bedroom to the far left of the building. In order to start this we need to empty

Dawn had the opportunity to take a week off with her family and spend it at the house. Given the house in an ongoing “work in progress” everyone was always going to be put to work.  Somehow they all managed to strike a balance of working on the house, garden, cowshed etc etc and exploring the area. This was just

Episode 5 is finally here and it’s chock full of news and as always differening opinion as always. In this episode we discuss the progress that’s been made on the chimney (finally), wall pin, cow shed and even the roofers turned up! To cap off what was to become a Monty Python-esq encounter there’s even a French Architect in there

Episode 4 is now live, and in stark contrast with Episode 3 we are actually really positive about what we have achieved. This episode really shows the importance of stopping and look at what you have “actually” achieved and not at my frustrations about what “hasn’t” been done

There are two podcasts coming this weekend to make up for it plus an extra audio-post all available from iTunes. The editing on the first one is a little rough and ready, it’s surprising how quickly you forget the editing basics Episode 3 podcast covers Why the delay Waiting for quotes A book recommendation and much more of me getting

This is for all the people that have requested a different way to listen to the podcast and audio posts we have started to produce. What we’ve done is now made an mp3 streaming version available at the end of each post (example below). This mp3 stream will play straight from your browser just click the play icon