Category: Media
Gallery – Renovating the main area

This week was quite a milestone for our mini renovation with my Dad spending the week at the house to complete the plastering so we can finally say goodbye to the awful state of the walls that were there and it’ll be ready to paint the next time we go out. Below is a quick reminder of what we originally

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Podcast Ep2 – Now in iTunes

It’s London Marathon day in London so we did what all sensible Londoners do and that’s LEAVE LONDON So we used the time in the quiet countryside to record episode 2 of the Montpillard.com Podcast where we talk about our process of finding and buying the house. This Podcast is a little longer at 15 minutes but there is a

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Podcast Ep1 – Now in iTunes

WE DID IT! Episode #1 is now available in iTunes (link) for you to download and it’s already getting downloaded at  rate i just had to “top up” on bandwidth with our current

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It’s Arrived!

Finally after weeks of customs delays, parcel force loses and sitting on my hands today the Zoom H4N finally arrived! I’m dying to try it out so brace yourself for some very rough and ready recordings, the actually podcasts will come a little later when i know what i’m doing with it. With the Grand Designs show coming up in

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Removing the outbuilding (video post) – UDPATED

With the builders coming round to quote for the repairs to the outside of the house it’s time to start removing one of the old building so they can get access to the wall, we could of course leave them to do this but it’ll be two days work at €250 per day so I thought I’d do it. Now

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GALLERY – Kitchen Fit

Here’s the full gallery of images for the kitchen removal and fitting of the new units. You’ll have to forgive some of the quality as that’s the iPhone for you but that said I’ve never had such a powerful renovation tool in my pocket You can read the full post

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Podcast Update

OK to start the week with some good news. As you know we’ve got a lot going on and we’ve been trying to get a podcast sorted for a while without luck. I promise it’s to through the want of trying, we’ve got a couple of Mac, GarageBand and some USB mics but it’s just proving to big and cumbersome

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GALLERY – House Plans

UPDATE 08/02/09 : Please note these plans have now been superseded with the use of a new architecht. Please see newer posts or search PLANS in the search box ( top right ) As promised we are posting up our house plans in an “as is” state at present. These small images below click through to the main Flickr gallery

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CONFUSION REIGNS ! I’m heading to France

How is it that we don’t have one agreed set of measurements for the house? It now seems after Dawn looked at the bathroom furniture that I have purchased she thinks my measurements are out and the items aren’t going to fit. No problem we have plans right, after all the architect did finally delivery them. OH that’s right we

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GALLERY – Two rooms become one
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