Swimming Pool project
In order to make the gites a bit more saleable (two bad years after the financial crisis). I am going to put in a heated, covered 10m x 5m swimming pool. The pool will be heated by a heat pump (a bit like a fridge in reverse) and [...]
Pomme finished
Hooray! It’s finished! I started to renovate Pomme in the middle of January, four months ago. I have replaced the staircase, doors, and windows. A wall has been knocked down, a ventilation system put in, cut granite stones for the front step, decorated all the walls, replaced damaged [...]
Snowy in Brittany
It’s been snowing here! Quite a rare occasion for Brittany – the children have been having great fun – school has been cancelled for two days and I have lost count of the number of snowmen, ladies children and of course, snowdogs, igloos etc that have been built! [...]
Staircase
The main reason for renovating Pomme gite was because of the staircase. The original staircase had been put in ‘on a budget’ and was a straight, open treaded pine staircase. You can see it behind the rocking chair on the left of the first picture. Because people often [...]
Pomme Renovation
The smallest gite here is called Pomme. A cute little 2-bedroomed house with sloping ceilings and a downstairs bathroom. The stairs are very straight and upright and open treads. People are often worried about going up and down them. This coupled with the top of the stairs arriving [...]
Winter work
Sorry that I have been absent for a while. Contrary to most people’s impression, winter is my busiest period here with the gites. I spent the time bringing up to scratch the gites for the next season. This teamed with the fact that I have had problems with [...]
Pomme’s new shower
Pomme’s new shower, tiled and grouted – nearly finished!
Child’s Play
Well I did it! It cost a lot of money, but its fantastic, mows and collects wet grass and you can empty the collecter without even getting off your seat! It is so simple to use that my son, Hugh, mowed the lawn today Hey, that’s great, no [...]
Tools of the job
One of my most important tools of my job is my lawn mower. I have over 1.5 hectares of land mostly laid to lawn and it takes me around 4.5 hours per week to keep the grass cut neatly. The tool for the job is a sit-on lawnmower [...]
