They say a picture is worth a 1000 words and we’ve got lots to tell you, almost too much to be honest and that’s what has caused the delay to posting so it’s time to play a little catch up and also unviel what’s been keeping us busy since March

Firstly: Thanks for hanging in there! I know thing have been more than a little quiet on the site and that’s simply because there’s not been a lot going on with the renovation, due to the weather in France. The good news however is we’ve not just sat back, we’ve been planning, organising & generally beavering away, and next week

I briefly posted about this at the time but then we did no more tweeting or posting since we just decided to switch off and enjoy the time at the house. A few things about this trip were special, this was our first ever Christmas at the house, previously it would have been far to cold in the house (with

During the dismantling of the cow shed we removed 10 timbers that have stood for years. These are approximately 17cm wide by 8.5cm deep by 423cm long (all are approx. as these all vary a little) and we aren’t going to reuse them for the foreseeable future and would rather someone get some use of them. Unfortunately I can’t tell

With all the work we’ve done this year we thought we’d try and do something we’ve never done before and that’s the pair of us spend some time in the house alone. In all the time we’ve owned the house Dawn and I have never actually spent a single night in the house with just each other. With all the

WOW! What a difference 6 weeks makes! We first used LDLines back in Sat 29 August 2009 & I remember twittering at the time about how poor the service was and that they were obviously looking to be the Ryan Air of the English channel. I also said i’d never travel with them again due to the chaotic nature of

Today was always going to be a quieter day on the big achievement front as being the weekend we had the football to listen to and the F1 qualifying to watch but we did make a MASSIVE leap forward on the heating of the house and this is by far the biggest step forward to the living conditions in the

With Christmas coming it’s time to spend a few days getting the house ready for the winter and the work we have planned for the coming months. Today was about setting the week up so it’s the start of all the dirty jobs (oh joy)

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,