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Saint Matthias

Finished sanding 14 windows and doors, unfortunately Caroline is still painting. Two gites finished. The other gite we will have to leave until September because it's fully booked from now until then. During the summer I think we are going to tackle our house windows. I can really see the attraction of uPVC.

Outside of the summer season (when we haven't got guests' children staying) the chickens and the goose roam all over the grounds foraging for food. During the summer they are confined to their enclosure because some of the younger children are nervous of the animals. They love helping Caroline feed them each morning but we keep them out of the 'public' areas in the summer. Last year they munched through all the grass in the chicken pen, so this year I've added a bit of fencing to double the size. It's partitioned so we can move them between pens to allow the grass to recover in each idle pen.

Ate our first lettuce from the vegetable garden. I forgot to take a picture so I took a picture of the new chicken fence to wet your appetite instead.

New fence for chickens

Oh Yep, still mowing :-)

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These are our experiences of running a gite business in Brittany, France. A gite is the French equivalent of a country holiday cottage. French culture, language, taxes and bureaucracy. Find out about our gites using the links on the LHS. This is our fourth season (2006) and we are looking forward to the summer. Stories about the road to this point will be added in due course. Renovation nightmares, builders, stress, schooling etc. Stay tuned.



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