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At last, the sun is out! After a very wet and cold winter it is time to get outside and do all those essential jobs that need to be done before spring. We have neglected our orchard in recent years and we need to prune the apple and pear trees. These trees are about twenty […]

Yes, just eight years into our “Ten Year Project” we are finally moving next door to begin work on our kitchen. It seems our new kitchen is not quite as straightforward as we had hoped. The tower at that end of the chateau dates to the 1800’s (probably around the 1820’s). The huge stone walls […]

Normandy is famous for apples and pears.Our orchard would not be complete without a couple of ponies to keep the grass in check.

Our best Pen Show so far! With good sales and high footfall our trip to Hammersmith was a great success. As an online business we rarely get to meet our customers, so this is a great oppourtunity to put faces to names. Many thanks to all those who popped by just to say hello and […]

This year we have re-stocked our lakes with mirror carp, thanks to our friends Jo & Lee from St Brice Carping. A mirror carp due for a new home at Chateau de Grandchamp lakes. Last year’s drought caused our lakes to suffer from algae problems and low water levels. Our fish had a tough time […]

Trying something new this year -growing vegetables and flowers in straw bales The results have been amazing!

One of the most exciting things about living in an old house is finding things from the past. When we had to block up a large hole in a wall we were going to decorate, Barry suggested a Time Capsule. What a great idea! A chance to leave something behind for a future owner to […]

Work on repairing the beams in the stables in 2022 meant we could safely access the rooms above. Here the boarded partitions had old estate accounts glued to the walls from 1814. It is so exciting to still be making new discoveries. Work on the stables has started… But… There is a lot yet to […]

A success! There are times when leaving areas to nature just looks scruffy. It can give the impression we don’t care, or worse don’t know what we are doing! Every now and then something happens, sometimes something quite small that makes it all worthwhile. In July we saw black and white butterflies that we had […]