Just a very quick message to say that we know we’ve not updated for a week and this is simply due to the fact we got MARRIED this past weekend and has things on our mind They’ll be a flood of updates soon as suppliers from the home building show are now starting to come back to us so they’ll

When we bought they house the first thing we decided to do while we designed the renovation was to remove the wall in the bedroom area’s that created two rather small bedrooms. While in the longer term this new room will be removed altogether for now we want to create a temporary bedroom of a decent size and there was

Buoyed by the success of the chimney cleaning Dad and I couldn’t help but get inquisitive and want to see what was behind the 70′s wood cladding. After all I’m 34 and I was a kid the last time this style was in. We’d initially decided to wait until the morning to do any more but one thing lead to

As with all houses in France the chimney must be cleaned every year and a certificate issued if you are going to live in the property or your house insurance isn’t valid. Well our house had been empty now for some 5 years and after failing miserably to get hold of a chimney sweeper local or otherwise it was time

We’ll here is a novel way I’ve started to learn French and the best part about it is that there are no book or writing, and in around 8 hours you’ll start to feel more confident with people around you speaking French and speaking French yourself. I’ve got the Michel Thomas Foundation French audio book from Amazon and have burned

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

Just while we get out gallery and local information pages written we thought we’d like to share some images with you that just captures why we love Montpillard and it’s surrounding area especially at this time of the year. More soon but please enjoy these : Far far more to come of course but we just wanted to break up