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.

Multiple fronts

Steady couple of days working on multiple aspects. Not sure if that’s the officially best approach, or if I should stick to one thing...

It's huge, and so is the hole to bury it in. Rene came with a mate, and they've both been hard at it all day. The digger only broke down...

Farewell lads, It's been a journey. I got my act together with some concrete and set the three critical pieces in position on Tuesday...

Taking things (like houses) apart tells you about the people who put them together. You get to see the little tricks and shortcuts they...

Memo to self: It is a good thing to concentrate when reversing your van into a parking space at the supermarket. It's all too easy to...

I thought this example might serve to show how something quite simple in theory turns out not to be quite so easy in practice. And...

The next big job (possibly the biggest single task of the whole exercise) was to cut through the floor and dig out and run new soil...

Uneventful trip down, the van coped well with being over loaded and the horsebox didn't seem too put out at being asked to move a...

You buy a house and quickly work out that it will need stuff. The list of needed stuff grows and grows until you realise that a van to...

It was all going so well. Brilliant trip down to cousins Karen and Steve (5 stars - Trip Adviser) the heavily overloaded car seemed to...