Posts by Benjamin Dickins

While last week’s blog was a summary of things we had achieved in 2021, it mentioned that we had a number of projects planned for this year.  The first, and probably the largest, is a refurbishment of Granary similar to that we undertook in Priory in 2020. Granary is one of our 2 family gîtes. …

Normally, I would use either the first or last blog of the year to round up what we had achieved in the preceding 12 months – as much to remind David and I what we have done as anything else.  As I haven’t done that yet, I hope you don’t mind if I do so…

Happy New Year. We hope you all had very happy Christmases and enjoyed whatever it was you chose to do, if anything, to see in the New Year. In past years, my first blog of January has been a summary of everything we had achieved in the previous 12 months.  This year, I will delay…

I can’t believe that this is the last Sunday, and so my last blog, before we arrive at Christmas.  Where has this year gone? I finished my last blog stated that the weather forecast was looking amazing for Christmas and so I should be able to make lots of progress outside.  It has been absolutely…

I had probably better start with an explanation of my title.  Gutted is not a word I like (unless you are speaking of preparing good fish for dinner) as it is generally associated with losing in certain sports which we don’t follow. However, it is possibly appropriate as to how we feel right now as…

For the first time in weeks, I have managed to write a blog a week after the previous one!  Sadly, our holiday is already a long distant memory and certainly the barmy warm weather is!  I can’t believe that we are already in December however, on the upside it does mean we can get our…

I am not going to admit that writing a blog fortnightly is a better routine for me, despite that being the length of time which has passed since my last post!  There are, as always, good reasons (well reasons) that this is the case and, despite us promising ourselves that we would have a productive…

Again, it has been a number of weeks since my last blog, and this one won’t be overly long.  The last blog had the bad news about David’s Mum’s passing so the following week we were not the most motivated as we were preparing to go back to the UK. It also mentioned that for…

I didn’t post a blog last week and we didn’t achieve as much as we’d hoped in the previous 7 days as life has a way of throwing you occasionally. Very sadly, David’s mum passed away quite suddenly and unexpectedly, and we thought that he would go back to the UK to be with his…