Clearing out, plastering and general renovations with the Motley Crew

Internal renovations started, which involved patching up some of the old plaster, which had departed company from the walls; in other places we left the stonework exposed.

In the hallway, the small rusty firegrate was removed and some of the plasterwork fell away to reveal a large stone fireplace which added great character to the hallway.



Danni sanded down the wooden "shopfront" windows from what was formerly a bike bits-and-pieces shop. A lot of the nails were removed from the beams in the "shop", although some required the use of the angle-grinder.



Meanwhile, Simon H discovered the joys of making a hole through a 30" thick stone wall to allow us to fit the waste pipe in the bathroom to the sewer outside!

Tour de France

We took a day off to visit Tour de France 2008 in Montlucon - here is what we got up to:

Take a video tour around the village

Courtesy of our neighbours, you can now take a virtual drive around the village and surrounding areas and find out about some of the strange things the locals get up to. Choose one of the videos below:

Look ma, no roof!

The builders had started work before our arrival in France, but where a little behind schedule. As you can see from the photos, they had stripped off the old front roof and had begun replacing the structure with new wood in preparation for re-tiling.