Magnicourt

Day one Duck Family JJ cutting back all the plants Simon gets vindictive with the cleaning brush Getting a break Back to work Spot the colour difference Half the undercoat finished
Click on the thumbnails for a larger picture Doing a good job Making a break through the wire Clearing the bridge Brick by brick Scraping down the door frame Painting the bridge The last bricks
 

Painting the house

11 October 2005

Oh look - a change of hair style for Simon: Grey and Magnolia.

15 October 2005

The undercoat is finished. JJ get eaten by roses, usually it would be him eating Roses.

16 October 2005

The bridge gets a scrub down and a coat of paint.

The top coat goes on (and on and on - or so it seemed) but finally gets done. This was a bit of a pain as it basically needed doing brick by brick. Nothing in and old French house is a flat surface so paint rollers were pointless, you missed too much.

Here is one we finished earlier

Here is one we finished earlier

17 October 2005

The owners come back ! Time to get the place swept up a bit and the number plate back up on the wall.

Despite the photos I did do some of the work, though Jean-Jacques asserted that as he works more often with Sandra and Peter: he was therefore the boss.

They sort of look happy

They sort of look happy

 

See also

Jean-Jacques's Trip to London

Route du Poisson