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b(rittany)log: September 2012
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Monday, September 17, 2012. Workshop - work continuing. All the rendering and lime-washing is finished inside the workshop. Compare this corner with the first pic in my earlier blog: "Its been an interesting weekend - part 3". Definitely an improvement, and now the lovely stones that were used around the doorway can be seen clearly. All the doors are now glazed, and this picture shows how the middle door is hinged onto one of the side doors,. Wednesday, September 12, 20...
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b(rittany)log: March 2012
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Saturday, March 24, 2012. Once I leave the old railway track, my cycle route home from work continues up the D87 towards Kergrist Moelou. The D stands for Départmentale, ie the road is maintained by the. Départment , in our case Côtes d'Armor. The Départment has obviously run out of road-mending cash, so they take the pragmatic approach:. Put a sign up telling people what is already painfully evident - caveat emptor. Or rather, let the rider beware. And the extent to wh...
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b(rittany)log: a run in the woods
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Sunday, November 11, 2012. A run in the woods. Being council land, hunting is forbidden (in principle), but when we arrived la chasse. Were there in force. This is France. The idea is that if you hear their hunting horns don't even think about going into the woods. However it was nearly lunchtime so they were just going, having bagged three deer. No sensible Frenchman would spend good trencher-time out in the woods. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Le Chat qui lit.
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b(rittany)log: December 2011
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Saturday, December 03, 2011. I have made a couple of black buns, which are in the oven as I type this. I have made at least one of these traditional Scottish cakes every year since the early 70s. They are eaten in Scotland at New Year, and contain lots of whisky! Originally I made one each year for my parents (specifically for my father, who supplied the whisky, as we couldn't afford it then). I seem to have continued making them since. Dry ingredients for both buns.
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b(rittany)log: May 2012
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Monday, May 28, 2012. Home again and shattered. Friday at Guédelon, Florian et Patrice are setting up the tool to guide the building of the domed roof (une voûte en coupole). Of the ground floor tower chamber (. La tour des essarteurs, angle sud-est). Meanwhile we were continuing the outside part of the wall, with Melanie (in the hat) and Pascal, the maçon. In charge of this tower. At the end of the day, we took a look at the work going on on the top of la tour maîtresse.
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b(rittany)log: Mid-May 2013 when will spring arrive??
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Sunday, May 19, 2013. Mid-May 2013 when will spring arrive? Well, yesterday it was almost spring-like! We put a temporary roof of plastic over the strawberry bed, as we lost our entire crop last year when it rained incessantly (seriously! Pete got Bessie the tractor to start on only the second try (bless her, she's nearly as old as me! The apple trees are blossoming their hearts out! The pear trees have also blossomed well this year, as have the cherries. As is the rowan.
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b(rittany)log: New lambs and a late Christmas present
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Thursday, February 28, 2013. New lambs and a late Christmas present. Patsy had her twin lambs late on monday night - two nice big lambs, one male and one female. It took her a while to count up to two, so we had to keep an eye on her to make sure she didn't wander off, up the field, with only one. They are thriving nicely. Eddie had her two this morning, although they are more like one-and-a-half! I dyed it using walnut husks and am eventually quite pleased with it....
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b(rittany)log: January 2012
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Saturday, January 07, 2012. More work on the ceiling. We have started again to do the ceiling in the house - this is definitely a winter job, and the cold-ish weather has arrived eventually, so it couldn't be put off nay longer. So, having established the angle (not very accurate, as it turned out), the next fun job is the starting corner:. This bit has to go in in one piece, till the corner is filled. Take a look at that curved wall! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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b(rittany)log: October 2012
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Sunday, October 28, 2012. Workshop - taking down the rotten beam. It has become obvious that the remaining tie beam in the workshop isn't really worth leaving in situ. It is extremely rotten/insect-gnawed, and threatening to collapse under its own weight. Its also just a shade too low for Pete to get beneath it comfortably. Having inserted a couple of extra A-frame ties onto the rafters a bit higher up to stop the place collapsing we strung-up the beam and cut it off.
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b(rittany)log: Workshop - work continuing...
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Jane's site from deepest Brittany. Monday, September 17, 2012. Workshop - work continuing. All the rendering and lime-washing is finished inside the workshop. Compare this corner with the first pic in my earlier blog: "Its been an interesting weekend - part 3". Definitely an improvement, and now the lovely stones that were used around the doorway can be seen clearly. All the doors are now glazed, and this picture shows how the middle door is hinged onto one of the side doors,. Subscribe to: Post Comments...
