We made the decision to make Petite Assistant FREE for the festive season to celebrate the house being warm, sealed and ready for us to spend the first Christmas here as a family. This now brings us to an interesting dilemma: “Do we keep it free?“ I initially decided to place it back to the launch price of £1.79 after

We’ve achieved a few milestones on the renovation of late with the roof being finished and the dog getting his passport so we can all spend our first christmas as a complete family in the house and to celebrate we wanted to share the love so we’ve made Petite Assistante FREE for the festive period. No catch, no reduced functionality

So i just wanted to say i know its been a bit slow ont he updates for the last month and that’s simply due to the fact tht like Europe we’ve been taking out holidays too. As France and our French contracts went on holiday things shut down and this time around i’ve learnt to enbrace it rather than get

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,

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

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