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.

Hot Flush deux

Shall we call it: ‘Not an un-qualified success.’? So the basic theory that when you go to wash your hands the water is warm quickly;...

Final third of the adventure. Final phase/time box/month is upon us and this should be the good bit when all past work starts to show...

Carl, your letter turned up: In skilled hands this is a great tool. -A 20 litre bucket of paint that has been sat around for weeks only...

Soft, semi liquid cheeses that would probably be illegal in the UK, Foie Gras, pig in a format never previously experienced; whatever...

Dropped off Carl, Adam and Jo at the airport and went home to an empty house for the first time in a fortnight. They’re all experiencing...

It sort of crept up on us. We’d talked about which day, what needed doing first and beer and wine supply but it was still a shock to...

Roof topped out and ceremoniously acknowledged with a length of vine. Our work is in the foreground. It has taken much longer than...

Found the bathroom floor’s slope to be too challenging for the pitch built into the shower tray so we needed to level the base to make...

Top tip (see what I did there..) from Colin was to use multiple decheteries and he tipped us off (I'll stop doing that now) about a...

The Lee’s place is looking more like the car park at a builder’s merchants now we’ve added Colin’s truck on loan. We needed something for...