#45 Day by Day, Little by Little. We Bought a Dump...in France! Episode 24
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Since October, we have tackled huge project after huge project. In this episode we begin to settle in to the day to day and we move forward but the focus is now smaller projects and clean up. Budzy is behind the scenes like a madwoman on the weed eater and Bloke is busy with shelves, a new set of stairs, and lawn care - does he ever stop? Find out!
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Check with the Marie before lighting any more bonfires. Most prefectures have their own regulations regarding burning garden waste and many ban them between May and October.
Love the serenade! 🎶
Such a huge change since the beginning. Don’t miss those ugly fences at all.
Congrats, guys! I admire you! If you work with love, you will be rewarded with love!
Bring on the f*****g sunshine!!!! 😎
LOL OMG! And its Cold too! The French paper called it "An Episode of Freshness"🤣🤣🤣😬😬😬
Oh yeah, it is a cold wind now. We did have sunshine for a few days now, i truly hope it continues as we really don't need anymore rain 😂and that's putting it nicely i have some other words for it but those aren't KZhead safe ..
If it continues we will have a video full of bleeps!!!!
@@mrbloke It would be the easiest video to make, zero effort required :)
The Swedish meatballs looked delicious! Getting rid of the cattle fences made a huge difference in the appearance of your land ❤ love your black cats. The singing in the shower 😂😂😂
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Great work as always! That stone is perfect for those steps...they look like they were always meant to go there! ✌️
It made it so much easier - that step up was so awkward! Thanks!
The property is letting out a breathe as you clear away the debris. Well done
I’d love your health drink recipe! Loved it all, the steps, your gratitude attitude, the apple blossoms, the music, the landscape, the farmer neighbor saying hi, the clean up transformation, the church bells, the homemade Swedish meatballs, the massage, both giving & receiving❣️❣️❣️
Thank you so much Debbie❤️
@debbieretzlaff2912 1/4 of a Citrus/ lemon, lime or orange will do. Squeezed and dropped in the cup, a little bit "use your intuition" of locally sourced honey, a good pinch or two of turmeric or couple pieces turmeric root, couple small pieces ginger root, a little pinch of black pepper, 2-6 cloves...Then add hot water, mix with loving intention and appreciation for your health❤️
...Also in the thick of winter we add a smidge of cayenne pepper👍
Occasionally I add Apple cider vinegar splash too 😅(Mrs. Bloke)
Thanks guys❣️ I just made your delicious tea 🎉🎉🎉 So happy ❣️☀️🌷🕊️☯️
Singing in the shower…..This has done it!! 😂😂😂 love it!!!
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Love it ❤ it's all looking glorious!! Mr. Bloke's shower singing is fabulous and brought huge smiles 😀🤩
❤️Ah thank you❤️
Great work around the garden. Loved the singing ❤
That's music to my ears...lol❤️
Luckily, you do have the most wonderful bike path right outside your door to use for exercise. The bath house appears to be a very utilitarian and handy addition. Doesn't it feel wonderful to not only accomplish something, but have something visible to mark your efforts! Well done!
Thank you...It feels awesome❤️
You find beauty in almost everything ❤❤Thank you both ❤
Thank you❤️
Need a chipper. Hoping the full indoor bath is installed soon for your comfort and health
I saw the rain and my heart dropped a bit thinking that you guys can’t catch a break with that rainy weather! But the sun did come out and then we were serenaded with an eclectic mix of songs and then all was well in the world 😊
Dear Bloke couple. 👍👌👏 This is very different from your usual videos. You look like being at home for the first time and all the work is much more relaxed looking (although a lot is done nevertheless). The cats obviously love and enjoy the place too. Thanks a lot for making explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and especially health to all involved life forms (humans, animals and plants).
You are working so hard. The changes are great well done.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you so much!!❤️
Tranquility is what I always feel when I look at you and your farm. A perfect connection. ❤
Thank you❤️
At the end....Mr Bloke's greatest hits. LOL
The voice of an angel...Lol❤️
@@mrbloke angel in hell prays for help!😂
I didn’t see you in the start but you look well
Sigh ... beauty and nature and rain and industriousness....how content to watch it all
I didn't realize how much it rains in Normandy - I've never seen rain like that before - of course I'm in Northern California, but we've seen at least 10 atmospheric rivers this winter. It's beautiful today - 80 degrees - sorry, Mr. Bloke! The cherry trees are beautiful, as are the lovely wildflowers on the property. And the Swedish meatball dish, with veggies, looks delicious. And I must say that you (Mr. Bloke) looked like you needed a nap after that massage!
Hi Guys very tranquil video loved it Tracy and i just watched from bed we are knacked we said we could both do with a massage LOL and Mr Bloke with all that singing you would have done great at our Karaoke last night this is the reason we are knacked Lol any way see you guys soon hopefully all the best Budo xx
Soooo bummed we missed last night! So bummed! Yes, a tranquil episode indeed :) The pace here now is much more realistic! Hope to see y'all soon!
Just brilliant
Thank you❤️
I love st hilaire, is the market still good? One day I shall revisit the area.
The place looks better every Vlog. Thanks for sharing. ATB regards from the UK
More and more your property is starting to sing. Just a thought but i could see a wooden seat going around the large tree which has survived the creeper twining onto the trunk. Thanks for another lovely week. ❤
Thank you❤️There is a well beside the cherry tree, and the original slate stone will be reinstated somewhere down the road with seating around the well and tree❤️
Thank you for sharing this episode: nice landscape, pretty trees, plants and blossoms, your work with the stages , your food and health tea, massage, shower with singing 😂! Very varied episode 👍!
Beautiful. Those blossom trees are gorgeous.
I havent watched this episode yet, I have 2 more to finally catch up. I have not long discovered your channel and am amazed how hard working you both are to fulfill your dreams. It looks absolutely amazing already. Greetings from all the way downunder in Tasmania, Australia
I agree we all are craving for some sunshine
Hello lovely people. Not sure if you have already heard of, or even considered it, but building dead hedges could put a lot of that waste branch material to great use. You could section off areas with them, use up a lot of waste without the need to burn it and create thriving natural habitats for insects and birds. They also look pretty cool. 😉 xx
Great idea! Thank you❤️
I’m enjoying your channel and hope everything works out on your visa situation. You both are enjoyable to watch and have skills. You did so well with your shop/tiny house conversion I can’t wait to see what you do with the house. I’m confident you’ve already considered but don’t forget tractor access to be able to fix the water flow situation when building the new bath house.
Thank you so much for watching along!❤️
This massage en plein air sous le soleil printanier let les pommiers en f leurs ooked awesome 😍 I ghope you are not too cold as the weather has been quite chilly and next week might be pretty shivery too ! Take care 👍
It was lovely! ...Enough already on the cold weather!❤️
The only good thing about soooo much rain is that the ground is easier to work with. Heavy but still, easier. I know because I am doing some heavy work in the garden and am very thankful that the ground isn't dry yet. Little jobs make life pleasant. Great stuff. Best wishes.
Cutting and stacking branch wood and twigs for winter heat , crushing sundried branches uses wood fire fuel . It's sad to burn without heating when heating is always a need. Just saying. I heated and cooked many years in a row off burn piles. You can too.
We were burning the old rubbish wood from around the property. All the good stuff we're saving!
This is going to be such a wonderful place in the end
Thank you❤️
It's pleasant when the rain stops.
I love France when it is sunny! I struggle with the rain....really struggle (Mrs. Bloke)
Votre musique est tres relaxante et le projet plein de rebondissements. Beaucoup de progrès déjà réalisés et à venir. ❤ A bientôt
Merci beaucoup. A bientôt
Your massage table is my like my easel! IT SUCKS YOU IN!! 🥰🥰🥰
Oh! By the way? I am from Bluefield WV!! And I love 🌧️ rain❤
Once again both, thank you for taking us along with you, love it. Was fretting at one point the we weren't to see the trough but there it was at the end.....
Love, can't wait till next week
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I just found your youtube channel recently , and I have went back and watched most all of your older videos too , binge watching lol , I live in the U.S.A. but I love how many people are moving to France and remodeling old chateaus and farm houses there , I watch another KZhead channel called , Our French Chateau , I love their channel as well , they have fun personality like yall 2 , who knows , Yall may run into them in the town shops there one day . Yall are doing a great job , I am looking forward to watching more of your videos . God Bless .
Thanks for watching❤️We'll check them out!
@@mrbloke You will love their channel , they crack me up lol
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I'll light the fire, you place the flowers In the vase that you bought today Staring at the fire for hours and hours While I listen to you play your love songs All night long for me, only for me Come to me now, and rest your head for just five minutes Everything is done Such a cozy room, the windows are illuminated By the evening sunshine through them Fiery gems for you, only for you Our house, is a very, very, very fine house With five cats in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy 'cause of you And now... Now everything is easy 'cause of you And now... I'll light the fire, while you place the flowers In the vase that you bought today Your House is a Very very very fine house . 🏡
Beautiful❤️🙏✨
Love the apple blossom and the sunshine in between the showers. The clean up is going very smoothly and the improvement is really noticeable. Hopefully the weather gets warmer for you and the kitties 🐈⬛. Great video 😊
Thanks so much! 😊❤️
HAHAHA a very different video a chilling out one and i think its very much over due good luck and good fortune roll on the summer for poetry and painting ok love the video.
I love it! Poetry and painting for the summer.....and a little bit of work!❤️
Love your stone steps..
Hi guys you are making improvements all the the time. Steps are a great idea and the meatballs looked yummy ❤ oh l wish we had jump a vision l would land straight on the massage table Mrs Bloke. 😊 the singing did make me laugh 😅 thank you for sharing chat soon ❤❤
You are first on my list when I get all set up!!! We missed the party and are so bummed! But hope to see you soon!
Just watched yr 1st video on yr journey to France. What a small world it is! I had just retired - my first of 4 stores was in Middleburg , for 35 years a stones throw from the garden shop in yr video. Of course, 35 yrs ago the area was much more rural n the 'burg' was completely different. Poor Chubba Bubba! I expect he was pretty sore the next couple of days pulling the chubba way up that tree! You two are doing fantastic work on your place - but yes, take care of yourselves and rest! All in due time... Sister and I doing much the same now retired.. Less major renovations. Lot of hard yet happy work. Blessings to u both. 😊
What a beautiful area, VA Middleburg! You are so blessed to have lived there, we loved it!
Love your videos, every one. ❤❤❤
Thank you Kathy❤️
Nice steps, great to see you have some time to tidy the outside now
A further great blog. The out look now looks very impressive and the new steps look very good. You certainly work well together with love.
Honestly I think we all need some sunshine love watching you both
We do! Let's bring it!!
use your bush cut in a figure of eight movment then you will not miss much of the grass
Just love your video’s … love the transitions,editing,transformations and singing!, 🎤
Wow, springtime sure brings out the colour! Beautiful! You guys are a hoot and I do so enjoy your videos. Have a great week! Almost forgot, I love those steps!
Can you whistle? ;-) living the dream, well done
lol probably best! ❤️
Guys place looks amazing. Well done 👍
Thank you Sue!
Ohhhh yum, bum. Dinner looks wonderful. Greetings from Australia. Singing…”with two cats in the yard….or maybe 5” haaaaa
'Day by day we clean her up, and we know she is grateful.' Yes! Same journey here. Same wonderful, satisfying rewards. So glad you listened to that little voice and didn't whack all the orchard.
Love what you are doing. It’s coming together nicely. When will you start renovating the main farmhouse. Looking forward to seeing that
Enjoying the journey, is Budo still going to level off the ground re water problem ?, I think you need a barn as well.
one day he will!
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, living the life good work 💯😊, maybe go to the sauna and cold shower you look really tired Mr bloke I can see it on you.
🎼Help I need somebody ... not just 🎵 anybody 🎶 Mrs. Bloke you're beautiful, soft and gentle but Mr. Bloke's eyes are something else (and his singing ... a bit questionable 🤭 but for the shower it's ok 😂 as long as it's music 🎶 to your ears 🎵 You're a pleasure to watch ✨️🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
Why not use the wood for kindling for a fire or log burner that you will have in the renovated house
The stuff we are burning is junk/rotted/weed wood etc
Do you have a floor plan for the rest of the house. presume the bath room will eventually be part of the house
We do! here in this episode kzhead.info/sun/m9Sed5dpo36dpac/bejne.html
Front of property looks nice and tidy but can I ask when are you planning to put in all the drainage to avoid all the winter floods you had??
The gutters solved most of the problem. Our ditches kept the remainder from the house. We are now slowly digging vertical soak aways to fix the remainder of the problem. No rush now! No need to tear up the place👍
It's all coming along nicely.. much better without all those fences and posts restricting that lovely view 👍
Use those road gaurd rails as corner posts in concrete Then clad in timber Those are very useful
For your bathouse
After watching a couple of videos I'm hooked , but tell me do you intend to renovate the main building ?
Yea! Thanks for watching! Yes - the main house will be done in beautiful French Country Style but - that is a way off - we have a lot of infrastructure to put in place first and long overdue maintenance!
👍 for the cleaning of the land of the rubbish and stones etcetera however why burn wood? better to keep all organic matter and nurture your soil. mulch it and cover you veggie beds (if you start them). mulch it and compost it, ask neighbour farmers for some manure to enrich the compost piles (also use the grass clippings). use the Hügelkultur (look it up in the English Wikipedia with this original German word) to create more soil, in raised garden beds or simply on beds to grow veggies or flowers. but please don't burn, it's so bad for the environment.
The wood we burned was old rubbish wood and some weeds, we must have not made that very clear. We are keeping all the cuttings from the trees and making firewood and yes wood in the compost too 😊 (Mrs. Bloke)
this game they want you to mine, fish, hunt, collect insects,farm , but give a stupid storage system ,but you need all this stuff for building and quests.i have no room so im selling every thing i have out of anger to the devs who made the us have 8 chest count as 1 .
You need a top step . That dirt one will erode with time and use.
👍Will do
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Well your not a spring chicking anymore like me getting old and knackard
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Fruit trees, God's special gifts.
It is so special in the orchard, it feels different than the rest of the property - I know there is magic in there!!!
An American and a British living in France and making Swedish meatballs?
And hoping to practice Chinese Medicine! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Regarding your visas, can you not go to the uk or border hop and then come back to France and have a new temporary visa ? Could you go and see your parents mr bloke do they live in the uk ?
You only get 3 months which we already have after our long term visa's expired! My parents live in Spain, so no good for visa !👍
Gradually she is grateful. Will she still be when your cats have killed every bird in the garden.
The cats aren't into birds, I probably feed them too much. The cats have gotten some mice - We don't like to see anything killed, so I have told the mice to run to the fields....thanks for watching :)
Get a goat !
Once we get long term visa's then that's a maybe!👍
Here is a suggestion, why don’t you show the viewers what you make on Etsy and see any of the viewers want to order any to get some income coming in ?
As soon as we get our bath house and *visa's sorted this is exactly what will happen👍
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For goodness sake, just get on with the house.
The grounds were very unloved and we need to clear. Before we can begin the house we also need to put in a septic and some infrastructure - driveway and we need a new roof. Our focus will be to get a bathhouse going so we can live comfortably while we renovate - day by day, little by little :). Thanks for watching (Mrs. Bloke)
@@mrbloke my vote goes for doing what you want with your own place. You are making great improvements and I hope that sun comes out soon for you x
@Neroli-Daydreaming-of-France ❤️🙏Thank you