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,

Get the balloons, party poppers & the orange juice as we are about to have ourselves a wrap part! Introducing little Miss “Petite Assistante” your personal French renovation dictionary, translater and all round life saver. The app is a dedicated English to French to English translation dictionary however this IS NOT your normal batch of French words. You’re not going

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

I did mention a while back that we are trying to put an iPhone app together to help with renovation & that wasn’t very specific so it’s time to put some flesh on the bones now we’ve started the project (as if we didn’t have enough on the go). “Petit Assistant” is a nice and simple app, we’ll to be

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

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