As our renovations – for many reasons – have come somewhat to a standstill, we’ve had some other projects going on. One of my pet projects, and this pun is totally intended, was to see if we could get some more chickens by actually hatching some chicks ourselves, rather than buying new ones. My reasoning behind wanting more chickens was …
A new coat for Christmas
After a very long wait, our house finally got a new coat! I have a bit of mixed feelings about this, as I obviously know the house since I was a little child and whilst the change is good for the house – and for us – it still has a lot of emotions connected to it. It was a …
Happy New Year!
I am wishing everyone a happy new year and hopefully you all had a good start into 2026. Towards the end 2025 it has been rather chaotic for us. I haven’t sent out an update in a while, so when I get a quiet minute I will write a wrap up what has happened here recently. See you then!
DISCOVERING: Belley
Just as a heads-up: this entry will probably be updated over time. Most of the times, if we go to Belley, we only go there for shopping purposes, as it has the different and/or bigger supermarkets (or rather a “hypermarché”). So maybe check back after some time to see if there’s any new stuff below. 🙂 Parking The parking situation …
Parc des Oiseaux
(Villars-les-Dombes)
My brother is a big fan of this park and has been there a couple of times already. So as it came highly recommended and we had some friends coming to see us, we thought that might be a nice change of scenery. Of course we can’t compete with Disneyland here, but who can… 😉 Parking Parking was easy and …
A slow burner – Part 4: what did we get done?
That is a question, we have been asking ourselves. Being the one doing the renovations, sometimes it is difficult to see the trees in the forest. But feedback from visitors or even neighbours have been rather positive. Particularly from visitors which have known the house for a long time, i.e. my brothers or family friends. The Clear-Out I think the …
A slow burner – Part 3: the garden
The garden is one of my main projects while my husband takes care of the renovation works where I am not much of a help. At the moment the house is rather plain. Don’t get me wrong, my aunt uses the garden a lot, it’s her little baby and she’s done a good job. But you also can tell that …
A slow burner – Part 2: renovations
We have recently passed our one year anniversairy of moving to France and whilsts we did achieve some stuff in the house, sometimes it feels rather like we didn’t. Back then when we got here, we said seven months is plenty of time to turn one room into livable space with proper heating so we could survive a winter in …
A slow burner – Part 1: the chickens
I’ve been meaning to update this page a long time ago, but we’ve been bouncing between loads of work and frustrating nothingness, that it really was difficult to get any motivation or – rather – inspiration on how to continue this website. Post Chicken Chaos So, trying to catch up with where I left things of: the chickens. My husband …
Coop & Cage: First Experiences
I’ve been meaning to give an update on the chicken coop for a while, but kept putting it off. Whilst our chickens were quite happy using it. We have not been too keen. Mainly because it’s not been working out quite as we wanted. We’ve been looking into all sorts of chicken coops. Houses, simple coops, coops with a chicken …