Wednesday 12th August had another early start sanding down and filling in around joints some more and chiselling away at the wall partly struggling cos of our blisters! We realised today just how long it would take to get the joints looking perfect and smooth - bit frustrating as we like being able to stand back and see what we have completed at the end of the day and there never seems to be much difference. Holly and George went to the lake but i decided not to...

Sunday 9th August Woke up very late to find it was raining hard, stayed in bed a bit longer chattign and reading. Eventually got up around midday and foundte i was a cleaning mood so cleaned our gite, caught up with this blog a bit then sat down for some french practise. Me, Lisa and Holly read a few more chapters of our book to eachother then translate it writing down and new words, this takes a while but is really good for improving vocab. I also made a bi...

Sorry it's been a while been too busy working and enjoying the immense heat we've had the last week! Tuesday 4th August 1st day back at work and Paul set us the task of being reporters! we were to travel to Angouleme for the day (something we'd planned to do on our next days off) and act as tourists then on return write a report for his website. Sounded ok to us so we headed of early and arrived in Angouleme at 8.15 to find nothing was open yet! We were dropped...

Saturday 1st August We had a lazy day for our first day off just slleping in and chilling out in the sun. Spent hours talking to Dave and Tracy after dinner which was really nice - a sure sign i'd properly settled in! Sunday 2nd August We got up planning to have a big day out somewhere but after speaking to Paul he advised us that it would be better on a Sat or Mon as more would be open. We then remembered that there was a local fete going on 'Les Rejouissanc...

La Giraudiere - Working project For those of you who do not know, La Giraudiere is an ongoing project in the Charente region of France. Paul and his two brothers purchased the property over a decade ago and after many summers spent slowly working on the project, Paul decide to live out here full time about 2 years ago. He started running the working project last year after having many holidaymakers at La Giraudiere offer to help, when the lazing about in the sun...