As every year, our neighbour planned his fireworks for July, usually around the 14th if possible. However, the drought this year caused a lot of disruption and bans were in place for simple things like parking your car in non-tarmac’ed areas or drinking alcohol in public… or in this case… even more dangerous… fireworks. So it was all postponed and …
Airconditioning
With the recent heatwave we admittedly struggled with the heat that has been building up in the house. One of the issues in particular we have with the building itself, is the fact they are two different type of buildings. There is the original house, built out of rock from the local area. A proper stone house as you undoubtedly …
Unattended Dogs
This has been a particularly harsh summer so far and whilst we’re all having a “hosepipe ban” in some way or another, life has been going on. That includes – unfortunately – also other nuisances like freely roaming dogs. Sadly, these are not even stray dogs. These are dogs, where their owners cannot be bothered taking their dogs for a …
Red mites pestering our chickens
Beginning of July, we planned a little trip to Germany to visit friends and family and our neighbours were so kind to look after our chickens and scavage any eggs that might have been laid in our absence. Of course more importantly, we were quite worried about our chicks as well, so we definitely appreciated someone looking after them. And …
Chick Update
Right, I do believe it’s time to give a little update on how our chicks are doing. Currently we have them in the lounge, in something I can only describe as a small dog’s play foldable pen (at least that’s what it is described as on Amazon). It’s also got a baby on the picture but of course that’s photoshopped …
Chick chick hooray!
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 …
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 …
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