HayleyRuth Photography

So you saw where we stayed in the first post, here if you missed it, So now you can see what we got up to.

My parents have bought an old farm house with an attached barn. Now by french standards it’s habitable but that still makes it a long way from the dream home they are creating.

So in February our task was to work in the barn to create the new utility room, now it might sound like the priorities are wrong but for now Mum and Dad are living in the caravan with a washing machine sat in the middle of the kitchen. Or rather soon to be kitchen. There is a rather beautiful wood burner fitted in the kitchen so we can all keep warm and have somewhere cozy to eat at night, but there is an awful lot of work to be done so they need somewhere for the fridge and washer to go whilst all the work is done and also they needed to drill through the barn wall to get water and waste into the barn. Anyway enough, that was the main task of the week.

For the utility room we had to clear out the barn, take down part of the old beam roof, dig out the floor, drill through the barn wall, build the base, connect the waste pipe and then put down tonnes of hard core, sand and cover the pipe ready for concrete, which went down the day after left.

Now along with the main task we also had lots of rubbish to burn, a tree that was about to start wrapping it’s self around the power line and lots of other bits and pieces of work to do.

We also spent a day with the local french community clearing the local footpaths to ensure that they can walked in better weather, some of them at the moment are like running streams as the winter rain finds somewhere to go. Hard to belief but 3 years ago the route we walked was un-passable. The lunch was amazing, the hospitality truly welcoming.

And finally, we were well fed with local bread and croissants, oh and a really beautiful meal out one night. Drank lots of local wine, just to make sure it was ok you understand.And so it was on the last night at 11pm, after too many bottles of red wine I have to say we completed the last task of the week, to measure out on the floor, the new kitchen, so that the kitchen can be ordered. That completed the list of jobs for the week, Big Tick we could come home feeling we had achieved something.

Oh and the pooch, well that’s the gorgeous Kia, who lives over the back and loves to come and help out.

Anyway enough from me enjoy the picture story.