This week my father and I are over in the house for seven days, this will actually be the longest time we have spent here in one swoop and it’s borne out of the frustration that my wife and I have that we just can’t tinker with stuff on the odd weekend. A quick recap : While we are finalising

I know some of you don’t like them and most of you don’t click them but they do really help us out and the good news ( for us ) is that they are back. Account issues sorted so please if you see adverts that interest you give them a click and enjoy where they take you. If you’re wondering

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

Well who says “free” tools don’t work? After trying to find sizes, stock and then going through a whole will it, wont it fit dilemma i finally went back to the B&Q website and used their planner to check some space arrangements. On doing so i selected their Barcelona range and dropped items in and then got a nice surprise

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

We just wanted to say THANK YOU!. Our first month with Google AdWords running and you’ve been kind enough to continue clicking the ads you’re interested in and this has earned us $48.10 towards the renovation. I know it’s not a massive amount of money, but with the small amount of content we have here and the repeat visitors it’s

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

The small amount of adverts are now live on the site and we’ll be monitoring their content over the next few weeks. To keep the adverts down to a minimum you’ll notice that we have only one set of adverts on the right hand side of the front page and another at the bottom of every post, this is so

Just a very small update to keep things open and honest as promised. Our Google AdSence account has gone live and you’ll start to see what Google promises are “targeted” ads at the bottom of each post. DON’T PANIC we aren’t going to swamp the site with adverts but this is part of our goal to make the site self