au milieu des vaches: adventures in renovation in the french countryside

Waiting

We are learning patience.

It seems that at every turn in this project there are delays. We continue to wait for the permis de construire, due at the beginning of February. Today we called the maĆ®tre d’oeuvre to find out about progress on the plan d’execution to find that his lead draughtsman has been off sick for the last five weeks and we shouldn’t expect the definitive plans before mid-March.

And you wonder why there’s not much happening on this site at the moment?

14 February, 2005 | about us | comment?

Hiatus over

After a forced hiatus due to setting up a new business, taking an intensive course for new business folk at the Chamber du Commerce et d’Industie du Roannais and building a new project to help publicise everything, I’m now back on deck in time for the festive season, but with a pile of new information about the formalities of business creation in France. A new category to add, then, as we look forward to a new year, and out the window at a bright winter sun that has yet to push the temperature above 0°.

21 December, 2004 | about us | comment?

Taste

In the beginning, there was a little bi-cultural French/New Zealand family. They lived 5 minutes from the centre of Auckland in a 1920s wooden bungalow that they would present for sale like this:
sweet home, aucklandsweet home, aucklandsweet home, aucklandsweet home, aucklandsweet home, aucklandsweet home, auckland

more… | 16 November, 2004 | about us | comment?

about us

In which we introduce ourselves and explain how a bicultural French/New Zealand family came to find itself surrounded by cows in a farmhouse that hasn't been inhabited for 150 years.

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