Another gallery update

Written on May 22, 2011 – 12:15 pm | by Chris |

Ive just loaded another gallery update, this is from last week, I had a few teething troubles getting the new gallery plug in to work but its sorted now http://www.medievalcastle.fr/photo-gallery/?album=1&gallery=4&show=gallery With Romas leaving today and three new helpers arriving today and tomorrow I will have to move my computer, I’m also hoping to get the [...]

1st Veg

Written on May 18, 2011 – 8:15 pm | by Chris |

Jess and I were just discussing what would be ready to harvest 1st, I said the radish may be ready, upon closer inspection one was popping out the ground, I pulled it up and couldn’t believe it! its bigger than a carrot, I took the photo with a disposable lighter at side of it so [...]

Update

Written on May 6, 2011 – 6:12 pm | by Chris |

Well Romas one of our helpers as today installed a photo gallery plug in that should make uploading photos much quicker and simpler. I have already uploaded two galleries so expect many more. I thought the video facility was updated but it doesn’t seem to be working properly, I’m hoping to have this working soon [...]

Sausage Bacon and Rambo

Written on April 5, 2011 – 3:31 pm | by Chris |

Well our two pigs finally arrived, Sausage and Bacon; seem to have settled in, we had a couple of escapes yesterday due to the electric fence tape being too high, a little adjustment and they are fine now, I didn’t realise how much they slept, I went out to feed them at 9 this morning [...]

Photos

Written on March 4, 2011 – 9:55 am | by Chris |

We have lots of photos and videos to post but WP is being silly so they are not loading properly, we are going to change it so its quick and easy to upload photos and videos. If anyone can suggest a good plugin please do.

Its been a great year

Written on December 15, 2010 – 11:12 am | by Chris |

We may not have blogged as often as I would have liked but we have been busy and got loads done, Rachael and I would like to give a big thank you to all our helpers, we have met some great people from all over the world, many came for a week or two and [...]

getting there!

Written on June 12, 2010 – 5:24 am | by Chris |

The 1st section of the castle is coming along nicely, we have a operational kitchen (not finished) our bedroom is now finished, the bathroom is fully operational So, after 2yrs in a caravan our gypsy life comes to an end as we move in to the castle. Bliss

Back on track

Written on March 20, 2010 – 3:04 am | by Chris |

things are finally back on track, this week we have been tiling, plastering, wiring and cutting back trees. we are hoping to be able to start preparing the vegy patch soon, we have now come up with a great plan to irrigate it from the moat, we have been getting all our seeds, potatoes, unions [...]

Let the plastering begin

Written on March 6, 2010 – 8:04 pm | by Chris |

Rachael and I went to brico last week to get 60 sheets of plasterboard, only to find when we got 35 in the van it was looking very low on the suspension so we left it at that. We also got a load more cable, including TV coax and communication cable, turns out we have [...]

Christmas is coming

Written on December 22, 2009 – 10:23 am | by Chris |

The weather as been quite bad lately, last week we got snowed in at a friends house for 4 days, really strange for this area, normally we never see snow, and on the rare occasion we do it never sticks. So with a hectic social calender for the festive season we have decided to leave [...]