Le Bouchet

Not very much went wrong!

Here we have tried to capture the story of doing up and enjoying a small farm house in the Charente.

To the seaside

Mr and Mrs L. offered a day out and I accepted, but to feel less guilty got up early to paint first. Thalia’s room’s shutters stripped...

Tool review warning:- What a brilliant little thing this has turned out to be.- From charitable purchase (nobody wanted it) the Uno has...

Looked back over some photographs we took before we bought and tried to stand in the same position for the ‘after’ versions. Some of them...

Two weeks of great help, great progress, great fun and a transition phase from work site into comfortable, habitable holiday space -...

Downhill soapbox racing near the beginning of this series of posts was matched for spectacle on Sunday in Bresdon, just up the road. The...

On my own I can get through stuff and make decent progress but recognise that I’ve been pacing myself over three months. When friends...

Never wanted to spend big money in here but it’s also the heart of operations in some ways, so needs to work. Layout went through the...

With the end in sight, thoughts of what’s left to do are starting to dominate.‘Not that much’ is the straight answer, which seems very...

Managed to load the van with decheterie junk and set out at a time when all local decheteries were closed. - A personal best fail. Junk...

Ooh she’s had a shock these past few months. Bought new by Chester Zoo in 2007 and used to move supplies around their site. For the nine...