French Water Mill Archive

  • Budget Car Hire

    Budget Car Hire

    Budget Car Hire Well we are about to fly out to the mill to check out the latest renovation phase, this time though we will not be driving down from Calais but flying into Poitiers and then hiring a small car from Budget Car Hire at the airport. There is an advantage or two in doing this, [...]

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  • JCB 3CX

    JCB 3CX

    Modern Machines and Old Property Why build a lake at all? Why buy a JCB? Well there are a number of reasons one of which is enjoyment, secondly value, digging a lake will add value, then there is the aesthetic view, how lovely would a natural lake look in the shell behind the trees. Of course a huge benefit [...]

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  • Watermill Latest from France

    Watermill Latest from France

    Here are some of the latest shots from the watermill renovation. Work is still too damn busy but am hoping to crash down in the turbo or maybe the GSX-R 750 depending on how my licence feels The Watermill – Looking Good From the back - The old roof – The new roof First floor stripped Lovely [...]

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  • Moulin De Bonnemort

    Moulin De Bonnemort

    Latest Pics from France are in and it shows the difference quite remarkably, when you see this type of transformation in a renovation project you can easily get carried away. Its amazing that nobody from the TV renovation programmes wanted to track the progress of this Watermill renovation. Still it is their loss, this is one [...]

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  • French Mill Progress

    French Mill Progress

    Well the Mill is coming on so fast and yet I cannot get time to relay this to the blog, I am so frustrated with this as the idea was to get the whole journey mapped onto the blog in pictorial/editorial fashion. I have so many fantastic pictures of this renovation project, taking it from a [...]

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  • Time to plan the Lake at the Moulin de Bonnemorte

    Time to plan the Lake at the Moulin de Bonnemorte

    Well its been really busy at work for the last week and so far it has been difficult to get in and structure the blog, I have been sorting out my pictures into categories so that the timeline will be accurate. At the same time we need to keep the renovation going at full momentum, this [...]

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  • French Water Mill

    French Water Mill

    It is beautiful, It is secluded, It is atmospheric… Our lovely French water mill is being renovated 8 years after buying it, I have decided now to create and maintain a record of this important renovation, include as many pictures as I can and see how it develops. Of course we are 8 months into this [...]

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