It’s a reasonably late start today after yesterday’s decorating and celebrations. I woke up when Matt got up but decided to treat myself to a couple of episodes of Doctors. Meanwhile, Matt is down in the basement dismantling more of the ceiling and creating quite the pile of rubble. Brackets up in the salon, followed by some careful manoeuvring into SaM to take down the curtains, then back to the
Read moreWhile I’m on my first call of the day the delivery guy arrives with the new scaffolding tower. Rather than just come to the door, I can see that he is sat on the other side of the road opposite the house. Seems I can’t ignore the French phone so have to excuse myself to answer it, tell him to come to the house and shout down to Matt to
Read moreSuper early start to the day as the chimney guy (who incidentally is also the plumber) is coming at 7am! I know, ridiculous, I mean who even knew that there was a 7 in the morning?! There’s only one thing for it. Multiple cups of tea. Few messages from Tita (the previous owner) to confirm that I’m up and that he’s coming this morning. They’re here, thankfully the junior guy
Read moreNot the most exiting start to the day. We’re off to St Gaudens to meet with an accountant. I took my laptop with me for the drive so that I wasn’t losing time before everyone breaks for Christmas. Naturally, the French phone rang twice while we were out. The first call was from Pat, he’s going to leave it round the back. Seems that the second letter has to be
Read moreHuzzah! It’s back to Toulouse again. This time we are returning the hire car. It’s due back by 11am so Matt’s hassling me to be ready, I am more concerned with putting my out of office on. Weather isn’t too bad as take on our second convoy. Stop as St Gaudens to fill up where it’s cheapest. Unfortunately I have no idea how to work a French pump. Matt to
Read moreMatt’s on leave now but I have to get back to work. Intermittently interrupted by requests for things of course. Thankfully Matt is just off to Luchon so should have some peace and quiet. Maybe not, seems he left the internal lights on in the car and the battery is flat so instead of getting the big shopping in the new car he has to go and get some jump
Read moreWell the boy is back and good god is he back. Thankfully he has had the good grace to leave me to rest and have a lie in but it is activity abound at Chateau Chaney Camp (or Les Bengalis). Of course my lie in is somewhat hampered by the gentle drone of the SDS Drilling in the kitchen. Thankfully however I am a pro and could quite possibly sleep
Read moreAfter a very long wait today is the day. I’m filled with mixed emotions, I’m naturally thrilled, but also worried that something is going to go wrong and he’ll be stranded in Amsterdam. Start the day as usual, my regular Friday catch up with the Professor Sir. Few emails and other bits and pieces before I can start on the other jobs. Best have a bit of a tidy up
Read morePlenty of things to be done now Matt is back. Need to speak to the garage to confirm what time we are picking up the new car. Managed to negotiate it up to 1pm last night which was a relief. His starting point was 11am so I think I did pretty well. It will take the best part of an hour to get there. Got there and seems that I
Read moreIt’s been a pretty slow week as I have mostly been concentrating on work. Monday. I worked all day. In the evening I had steak and chips. Also managed to get a bit more stripping done in the kitchen. Tuesday. All morning working. Break for lunch so first job was to measure and count the number of gaps between the beams which run under the kitchen. Result! Looks like I
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