The Boys Done Good !

Timeline: 6 Avril 2014: Almost fully recovered from the fall, I'm now working on three fronts, proving that blokes really can multi-task, as we re-lay the barn drain following too many large delivery lorries giving it a dip in the middle, continue fitting the barn kitchen and putting new external lime render on the Maison du Vigneron, which is already looking splendid only four days from starting to put scaffold up.

Getting back last night from a trip to my UK dentist, it was a joy to find the building devoid of the old and wearing the new base coat of lime render, with the site utility suite now wearing a finished top coat of render and a smiley face is watching over the courtyard!

I strongly suspect that the new render, which will eventually extend down the length of the outbuilding’s tired lower stonework, will quickly make the rest of the un-restored buildings look even shabbier, but hopefully retain some chic as well!

Yep, drains up again!

I’d made a reservation to hire a mini digger, as even the thought of exposing a short length of buried drain by hand mad my back ache. Unfortunately, the digger’s trailer had an agricultural pin and eye hitch which our tow vehicle couldn’t handle and so the next weekend saw me wielding pick axe and shovel and with Dan’s strong back joining in the next week, we found and fixed the problem the and now plan putting in some flower beds over the drain to keep traffic off and break up the sea of gravel.  

Never ending Ikea boxes

Meanwhile, the barn kitchen was neatly stacked out with over a hundred Ikea boxes. I’ve quickly became impressed with the pictorial instructions and the quality of the Swedish designed product and many kitchen units and a week later, I still had over a hundred Ikea boxes!

Progress is good though, we just designed ourselves a large kitchen!

I’m hoping for the VW truck to be fixed soon, so will have the opportunity to restore the old ‘hanger’, or open sided barn for dedicated gite guest parking.

More soon, a bientôt,

LC